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This is the first game in the RoboCop series. For other games in the series see the RoboCop category.

Box artwork for RoboCop.
Box artwork for RoboCop.
RoboCop
Developer(s)Data East
Publisher(s)Data East
Year released1988
System(s)Arcade
Followed byRoboCop 2
SeriesRoboCop
Genre(s)Beat 'em up, Run and gun
RoboCop
Developer(s)Ocean Software
Publisher(s)Ocean Software, Data East, Erbe Software
Year released1988
System(s)Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Game Boy, DOS, MSX, Sinclair ZX Spectrum
RoboCop
Developer(s)Quicksilver Software
Publisher(s)Data East
Year released1988
System(s)Apple II, Deprecated template usage
RoboCop
Developer(s)Tandy
Publisher(s)Tandy
Year released1989
System(s)TRS-80 Color Computer
LinksRoboCop ChannelSearchSearch
For the NES version, see RoboCop (NES). For the Commodore 64/128 version, see RoboCop (Commodore 64). For the 2003 game, see RoboCop (2003).

RoboCop is a beat 'em up/run and gun action game developed and published by Data East for arcades in 1988, based on the 1987 film of the same name. It was sub-licensed to Data East by Ocean Software, who obtained the rights from Orion Pictures at the script stage. Data East and Ocean Software subsequently adapted the arcade game for home computers. The gameplay is similar to Data East's arcade game Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja, released earlier the same year.

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 it was especially successful in the United Kingdom where it was the best-selling home computer game of the 1980s.

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