Console: | Atari ST |
TV Standard: | Region Not Set |
Developer(s): | Data East Corp. |
Publisher(s): | Ocean Software Ltd. |
Release Date: | 1970-01-01 |
Players: | 1 |
Co-op: | No |
ESRB: | Not Rated |
Type: | Action, Shooter, Family |
RoboCop is a beat 'em up/run-and-gun arcade game developed and published by Data East in 1988, based on the 1987 film of the same name.[6][7] It was sub-licensed to Data East by Ocean Software, who obtained the rights from Orion Pictures at the script stage.[1][8] 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.