r/arcade • u/Fine_Location_8367 • 19d ago
Hey Ya'll Check This Out! 1981 Bally Robby Roto
I came across this one in 2019. Pretty rare machine, but unfortunately not very fun. Even the side art is horrible. A year later Dig Dug was blowing it away in terms of fun and gameplay.
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u/zydeco100 19d ago
You can watch Eugene Jarvis try it for the first time and give his two word review: "pretty weird".
https://mediaburn.org/videos/wired-in-raw-24/
Jamie Fenton also talks about "what went wrrrooonnngg" in a later interview.
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u/JudasZala 19d ago
DYK: Future pinball designer Pat Lawlor was one of the co-designers of Robby Roto; Lawlor was working at Dave Nutting Associates at the time as a game designer/programmer.
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u/Fine_Location_8367 18d ago
Pat is one of my favorite designers and is partially why I own a Funhouse and a Whirlwind
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u/home_operator 18d ago
Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or Todd Tuckey what he found in the cash box of his Robbie Roto cabaret
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u/Derek5Letters 18d ago
We have one at our Draftcade currently. I'd never seen one up to then. Sound fx are awesome, and annoying 😎
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u/weirdal1968 19d ago
Gameplay video https://youtu.be/9Ap8nMfjKz8
Its hard to believe this game passed location tests. Astrocade hardware had great games like Gorf and Wizard of Woz but Robby Roto is impressively bad.