Roboman's job is to jump around various one-screen levels and pop balloons for points until he uncovers the hidden key to exit the level. (No metaphysical motivation is provided to account for the robot's desire to destroy innocent balloons.) The game's levels feature EGA graphics and PC speaker sound effects. The difficultly level slowly ramps up from quite simple to fairly challenging, and although the controls take some getting used to and the game is not very flashy (except for the flashing title screen ...) it does have a certain ineffable charm about it.
6/12/2024