Published by Ocean.
Part man. Part machine. All Cop. The seminal playground film of the 80’s, this ultra violent film translated well to many home computer formats. On most it was the common Ocean sideways scrolling shooter (although this was the first to employ the sprites that would later be re-used in Batman: The Movie, amongst others), but the game was great fun to play. Based on the arcade machine, the game saw you take on the roll of Robocop, stomping from left to right in a spree of killing bad guys. The villains attacked from both left and right, as well as the windows above. They attacked on motorbikes, and with chainsaws, shotguns and grenades, adding to the cornucopia of explosions around you as soon as you pressed the fire button to start.
The 8 bit formats differed from the arcade and 16 bit versions in their levels, although the gameplay was largely the same. In between blasting levels, you were presented with various distractions; a photofit section to identify your next target, and the brilliant recreation of the scene where you shoot the bad guy in the nether regions through the womans’ skirt (although you were supposed to hit him in the head!) <more to come>