If it’s not the most frantic game ever created, Robotron: 2084 is definitely in the top five of all time. The 1982 arcade game was one of the many classic games from that era to bear the Williams ...

“Robotron” co-creators Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar are speaking at this weekend’s California Extreme classic arcade games show in Santa Clara. A version of this tribute ran on the SFGate.com blog ...

A big appeal of Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One was its reverence toward the pop culture of the 1980s, from movies to video games. As the big-screen Steven Spielberg adaptation inches closer to ...

Eugene Jarvis hasn't made a game in around a decade, and is enjoying a well-deserved retirement, but in the 1980s especially this guy made the most brilliant and brutally tough arcade games around.

First available in the arcade in the early 1980s, Robotron 2084 was a fast-playing, tension-filled blaster that engaged hordes of players with its immersive, distopian environment, kill-or-be-killed ...

I love Robotron. It's so fun. Co-op is a blast, and so is VS. The problem I run into is that this game must have been made for an HDTV. I play on a normal tv and there are a lot of weird glitches that ...

Robotron:2084 is the epitome of organised chaos. An unbridled jaunt into insanity and the ultimate in twitch gaming. This is a title that all shooter fans must play at least once in order to ...

Shadowsoft, a newcomer to the Lynx development scene, takes video gamers back in time with their first release. The destination is 1984, where Williams Electronics' Robotron: 2084 is taking arcades by ...