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    Robocop 2 (Game Boy)

    The first Robocop was one of the arcade games at the Jr. Store (similar to a 7-Eleven) near my house that I dropped many quarters into. They always had two arcade games there that rotated out periodically. I liked both the game and the movie. The second game and second movie were really both more of the same but I never liked them as much. I guess they just didn’t add enough that was new.

    There were three different versions of Robocop 2 depending on the system it was developed for. This ad is for the version for Nintendo and Game Boy which was developed by Ocean who also did the Commodore 64 port. Robocop 2 like the first Robocop game is basically a side-scrolling action game that loosely follows the plot of the movie. It was a pretty mediocre platformer. The first seemed to have both better graphics and gameplay while the second just seemed much more rushed.

    Oddly, while this seems to be an ad for both the NES and Game Boy ports, it shows screen shots from the Game Boy. You would think they would show screen shots from the NES version since they would theoretically look superior. Possibly the Game Boy version was done first but I’m not sure.