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Publisher(s) | Data East
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Designer(s) | Yoshiyuki Urushibara Tomo Adachi |
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Series | RoboCop |
Platform(s) | Arcade, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Game Boy, MS-DOS, MSX, NES, TRS-80 Color Computer, ZX Spectrum |
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Genre(s) | Beat 'em up, run and gun |
Mode(s) | Single-player Multiplayer (not in all versions) |
Arcade system | Data East MEC-M1[3] |
RoboCop is a run & gun and beat 'em up video game developed and published by Data East for arcades in 1988 based on the 1987 film of the same name.[4][5] It was sub-licensed to Data East by Ocean Software, who obtained the rights from Orion Pictures at the script stage.[6][7] Data East and Ocean Software subsequently adapted the arcade game for home computers.
The game was a critical and commercial success. The arcade game was the highest-grossing arcade game of 1988 in Hong Kong, and reached number-two on Japan's monthly Game Machine arcade charts. On home computers, the game sold over 1 million copies worldwide, and it was especially successful in the United Kingdom where it was the best-selling home computer game of the 1980s.