Gyromite
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Game Title:Gyromite
System:Nintendo NES
Players:1-2 Players
Genre:Puzzle
Developer(s):Nintendo
Release Date(s):1985 - JAP/US
1986 - EU |
Gyromite is a video game released in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, designed for use with the Robotic Operating Buddy, ROB for short. Gyromite is one of two games in Nintendo's Robot Series, the other being Stack-Up.
Professor Hector and his assistant, Professor Vector, navigate side-scrolling platform levels with the help of their creation, R.O.B. Their lives are threatened by dynamite and hungry little bird-like creatures called Smicks, and Professor Hector's sleep-walking tendencies also get him in trouble as well.
As the Professor character moves through the levels, R.O.B. must aid navigation by raising and lowering red and blue gates. When a Gyro depresses the red pedestal, a lever presses the B button on Controller 2 and red gates are lowered. When a Gyro depresses the blue pedestal, a lever presses the A button on Controller 2 and blue gates are lowered. The action on the screen never stops, so while operating R.O.B., the on-screen character continues to be vulnerable. In the game you play a balding scientist with a major problem, his laboratory contains, for some ridiculous reason, an inordinate amount of dynamite. The clock is ticking and the fuses are burning, so we must go throughout 40 different rooms of his laboratory, picking up what feels like enough TNT to blow up the moon!.
Here to assist you is R.O.B the Robot! Or not. Failing him, get a buddy, a human one! This is one of those conjunctive team effort games, whereas player 1 takes the helm as the shiny-headed scientist and player 2 must operate the pipes that keep you from getting most of the explosives you must obtain to win. The A button raises and lowers the blue pipes while the B button does the same for the red pipes. What happens is that the term ''1-Player mode'' becomes a hilarious misnomer, because to play this game by yourself, you would have to be an octopus. But you soon realize that Gyromite is more than just a game that involves two players. It is a bonding experience. You'll express actual amazement the first time you find out you're able to squish the fuzzy green monsters between a pipe and the floor. There will be high-fives all around after the completion of a particularly exasperating level. You find yourself bewildered at the scope and thought put into some of the levels, and you might even get mad at your friend when he's messing around with the pipes and accidentally mashes you into the ceiling. Any negative vibes are a flash in the pan, though. This first-generation masterpiece is so much fun that there's no way the storm clouds can roll in when you play it. Gyromite at heart, is a game for friends, one about the thrill of picking up dynamite with a partner and the two of you secretly hoping it doesn't explode in your face. The 40 phases of drowning out TNT fuses will keep you at bay for a while, but as a whole the game is not particularly difficult. You can start on any level and figure any of the stages out through trial and error even with the five lives given to you in each attempt. The two-player mode allows you and the person you're playing with to trade off between your respective roles as the scientist and the one manning the pipes. More cooperation is involved, but it kind of wears out once you find yourself better at one of the two positions, which most folk undoubtedly do. And the Verdict is...
The faults you will find with this game are small, insignificant niggles at best. You and a friend will no-doubt get your teeth well sunk in to this strange 80's classic. It's a game that will quickly worm its way into your heart, because you will recognize that it makes all the right moves in such a cool way. The ROB is really just a selling gimic and never played the game as well as a friend can, even a friend that's got there arms tied behind their backs could do better than ROB.. But if you remember the old robot back in the 80's as a kid, it was quite mystical, futuristic and awesome!. I liked this game back in the day, and its still a good game today due to it's uniqueness and 2 player play-ability. Great game!. |