RoboCop (1988 video game)

RoboCop
RoboCop
	North American arcade flyer
Developer	Data East
Publishers	Data East Amiga, Atari ST, C64, CPC, ZX Spectrum; Ocean Software; TRS-80 Coco; Tandy Corporation; Game Boy NA/EU: Ocean Software; JP: Epic/Sony Records; ; ;
Designers	Yoshiyuki Urushibara; Tomo Adachi
Programmers	Ryōji Minagawa; Mr. Deco Men; Kenji Takahashi; S. Tamura; Masaaki Tamura;
Artists	Tomo Adachi; Asami Kaneko; Mix Man; Yoshinari Kaiho;
Composers	Hiroaki Yoshida; Hitomi Komatsu; Hiroyuki;
Series	RoboCop
Platform	List Amstrad CPC, MSX, Commodore 64, arcade, ZX Spectrum, NES, DOS, Apple II, Atari ST, TRS-80 Color Computer, Amiga, Game Boy;
Release	1988 Amstrad CPC, MSX EU: 1988; C64 EU: 1988; NA: 1989; Arcade JP: January 1989; NA: February 1989; ZX Spectrum UK: 1988; NES JP: 25 August 1989; NA: December 1989; EU: 25 April 1991; DOS NA: November 1989; Apple II NA: December 1989; Atari ST EU: 1989; TRS-80 CoCo NA: 1989; Amiga EU: 1989; NA: November 1989; Game Boy NA: December 1990; EU: 1990; JP: 1 March 1991; ;
Genres	Beat 'em up, run and gun, Scrolling shooters
Modes	Single-player; Multiplayer (not in all versions)
Arcade system	Data East MEC-M1

RoboCop is a 1988 video game developed and published by Data East for arcades and Ocean Software for home computers, based on the 1987 film of the same name. It was sub-licensed to Data East by Ocean Software, who obtained the game rights from Orion Pictures during the film's script stage. Data East and Ocean Software worked in conjunction with each other to release games for the arcade and home computers respectively for a joint release, with the home computer versions translating the sections that Data East had shown Ocean from an early unfinished build of the game which Ocean then had to expand upon.

The game was a critical and commercial success. The arcade game was the highest-grossing arcade game of 1988 in Hong Kong, and reached number two on Japan's monthly Game Machine arcade charts. On home computers, the game sold over 1 million copies worldwide, and was especially successful in the United Kingdom, where it was the best-selling home computer game of the 1980s.