classicgames.org - Electro Man

Yawn.

At first glance, Electro Man seems like it might have potentional: it sports clean, colorful graphics, and the protagonist looks a bit like Robocop carrying a huge gun. Soon, though, you'll discover that Electro Man can't use his gun until he finds charge packs for it. That wouldn't make a bad game in and of itself, but the only other motions that Robobum can handle are walking and jumping. Gameplay consists almost entirely of timing jumps such that you're hanging off the edge of a tile when you press the button. Even after you've acquired ammo, the game doesn't change significantly. The only difference is that you now have the option of shooting the enemy robots instead of jumping over them.

I called this a puzzle game only because it's sufficiently dull that filing it as an action game would be sacrilege; also, I believe the authors of the game classified it as such. Don't be fooled, though; the only puzzle is figuring out why anyone bothered to make something like this.

Posted by Kevin on 2000-08-09

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