ParadroidC64

Ohhh, the game everyone seems to want. ^^
This really might be the first C64 game I'll be getting.

Same here, I want to see what the big deal is with this game.

Looks sorta confusing

What on earth is going on here?

Lol, what? That looks ridiculous. I don't get it.

From the review, I kinda hope a modern day remake like Toki Tori becomes available for the WiiWare but probably not...

As soon as I get some points, this one's mine

Doesnt the sound get grating? i couldnt make it 15 seconds through the video without shutting it off.

LOL I remember this game when I was a kid.

Great game, although I think I'd only give it 4/5. Like Uridium it's idiosyncratic and more than a little odd, but Paradroid refuses to be confined to a genre; it's a little bit shoot-em-up, a little bit puzzle game, and a little bit of an exploration title.

The hacking sub game is both my favourite part of the game, and the bit that still haunts me to this day. It's feverishly difficult, especially when you try to hack some of the higher robots.

Excellent game!

The sound on the video is wrong. That audio only plays on the title screen - there's just a low humming sound during the game. And what a game...very very good game, very addictive.

I always use music from the game as music in the video, unless there is none, in which case I use in-game SFX. This game only has one song, so easy choice

Seems a little bit like the game "Mr. Robot" from Moonpod (a rather new PC game), which I also recomend. Though Mr. Robot is an RPG, this one seems more like an action game, though both have puzzle elements. Too bad we don't get Commodore 64 games on South America/ US, otherwise I would get!

Hmmm sounds good. Will probably buy this game!

Quite objectively, unless you played and enjoyed this as a kid, this isn't really playable these days. It was a groundbreaking game in its time, but now only the nostalgic need apply.

Sounds excellent.
So is the US just, like SOL on Commodore 64 titles?
Cuz me want.

wtf???

i just loved the amiga version, paradroid 90 (wow, has it really been 18 years already?)

Paradroid is still a fantastic game, one of the most addictive I've ever played, and yes, I do remember Paradrod 90 on the Amiga. I wonder if one day we'll ever see Amiga games coming to VC?

super hardcore,i am a casual gamer. 5 stars!

Great game. I had it as an original box on my C64, but I ... sold it a couple years ago. Yes, I did. Blame me for that.
I will buy this one for the VC. This is a really good balanced game. The sound when you clear one of the ships level is cool. The screen turns grey and you hear: summmmmm.

looks okayish - but the main sprite looks to be hard to see and the SFX are poor....even for the time of release!

Reminds me a little of a game called Magnetron that I used to play to death when I was a kid - I would definately recommend that game should it ever arrive on VC!

At last! If you've never played it, this is a truly incredible game!. The video doesn't do any justice at all to the game. The graphics are quite simple (this is a one-programmer job from 1985 remember), but they are stylised and hugely effective. Don't forget many early NES games were very primitive visually too, Legend of Zelda for instance. Poor visuals don't hinder the enjoyment you can have playing Zelda, nor do the simple graphics of Paradroid ruin this fantastic slice of British retro-gaming.

On screen the sprites don't clash with the scenery, so there's no worries in that regard. The Braybrook bas-relief graphics help create a futuristic feel to the game too. The sound effects are very good for the time in my opinion, Paradroid wouldn't have worked with a Rob Hubbard epic soundtrack. The effects build a subtle atmosphere of tension and relay lots of information (i.e. level of risk, condition of influence device).

The 3D/2D world also adds so much tension to the game. The fact you can't see what's behind a door is brilliant! It builds fantastic tension. The fact that amount of time you can control an enemy droid diminishes the higher their class is also fantastic, meaning that you need to learn a compromise.

Now all I can say is fingers crossed for Wizball...

I'm 35. When this came out 1st time around (as well as Uridium) the graphics were something special.... and Paradroid also had depth, strategy and something new. I bought it last night and it was like being 12 again. AAH.

This and Wizball were probably my 2 favourite games in the C64 era so, as Mr 64 says, fingers crossed for Wizball.

This doesn't sem to apeal to me at all. Maybe I'll see if one of my friends will download it first and then I'll check it out. I know you can't knock it til ya try it, but I can think of other games to play for 500 points.

I hadn't played this before it came to the VC. I have now. I'd say that this is one of the best games ever made.

This is an unusual game even by C64 standards, but it is well worth playing. It is highly addictive once you master the controls.

someone should re-make this game for WiiWare in the same way Toki Tori was a GBC game remade for WiiWare.

That bleeping would start driving me nuts after a while!

as stated, the bleeping is not present during the game:

Bass X0 if you're feeling put off by that video (and who woulndt be) then don't.
After being burned by falling for the praise of that pile of garbage Cybernoid I took a chance on this today with no nostalgia and only my love of Braybrook's other classics (Uridium and Gribbly) to back me off.
My Wii now shows I've played it for an hour and a half today. Its a fantastically addictive game. The sound is NOT, I repeat NOT like that video and the graphics don't clash like they do on the video.
Very deep and very good. Buy it over a cruddy PAL NES conversion anytime

One of the best games ever.

um... what the hecks going on

i think get the basic premise
you go around on a deck thing
shooting droids and sometimes clashing with them to do a face-off thing

umm if im right....
i won't be being, if C64 comes to US
(doubt it)

I got a fan-made remake of this game, it's awesome. When's the original coming to NA, it's been a year already!