## Description
The exploration space vessel “DARWIN 8” is in troubles: it is invaded by alien
robots, who killed the whole crew, leaving the player as last survivor to
fight the intruders and clear the ship.
The player blasts his way through 40 levels shooting robots. But there is a
problem: the robots are protected by “positronic generators”, which have to be
destroyed before the moving robots are receiving damage from your weapon. With
active generators, a hit with the weapon only stuns them for a very short
time. In each level there is at least one of those generators, in others there
are up to three. Clearing a level fast awards you with extra points depending
on the time remaining, while running out of time is punished with a life loss.
The levels are presented as single screens, with deadly walls in them:
touching a stone instantly kills the player, which is also happening on a
single hit from any of the robots shots. The level maps are pre-defined and
always the same, but on each level start or dying, the position of both the
robots and generator are randomly chosen. After each seven levels, the player
gains an extra life.
The game was published as cover disk for ST Format, but released into the
public domain soon after. In 2010 an extended port with original graphics was
released, named Robotz DX.
Robotz