10 TERRIBLE Video Games (That Revolutionised The Industry)
8. I, Robot Was A Groundbreaking 3D Shooter
No, this isn't a licensed video game based on that 2004 Will Smith-starring sci-fi movie, but rather an arcade shooter released by Atari 20 years prior.
I, Robot was released exclusively for arcades in 1984 and tasked players with shooting shield blocks before attacking the blinking eye of the malevolent entity known as Big Brother.
Pretty standard stuff, right? Except, in 1984, I, Robot's 3D version were positively mind-melting. It was the first game in history to feature 3D polygons running in real time, basically an entire decade before the tech was popularised by the PlayStation.
Yet outside of its innovations, I, Robot received predominantly mixed-to-negative reviews from gaming press of the era, who found its gameplay unremarkable despite the jaw-dropping visuals.
This, combined with the the game's arcade hardware proving unreliable, the arcade market being massively weakened by 1984, and Atari producing only around 1000 game cabinets, caused I, Robot to quickly slip from lips of the gaming masses, no matter that it proved what could be done in 3D years before it fully caught on.