Reviews
Challenge of the Gobots [Reaktor]
Reaktor secured the rights for the game version of the universally unknown Gobots cartoon and made an impressive bi-directional horizontal shoot'em up, but it seems more like a crash test dummy simulator, with you crashing costantly against the background or the enemies.
1,5/5
1987 Reaktor (UK)
by Tony Cooper and Ben Daglish
Based upon the Hanna Barbera animation TV show with the same name, Gobots is a mediocre, been seen many times before, shoot 'em up. Both presentation and gameplay is ordinary, playable but mediocre.
Review by YOR on 11 Feb 2019 (Rating: 1)
It's yet another Hanna-Barbara licensed game but this time NOT from Hi-Tec. No, this one is a different kind of beast, it's a shooter and from Reaktor. The first side is a long-winded story and that's it, no game, nothing. Side two is where the game is and controlling your ship is a nightmare, especially when there are enemies you can only avoid rather than hit. It's simply not fun to play at all and it's at this point where I figured Side A is more worthwhile than Side B, which indeed is saying something. But given the same author, and indeed the same company, were responsible for the almost as poor Out of the World and the same chap also wrote the hideously complex Super Bowl game for Ocean, what else did we expect?
