Paradroid
The game is set on a spaceship viewed from a top-down perspective. The ship consists of numerous rooms and levels, each one populated by hostile robots or "droids". The player, in control of a special droid…
Paradroid is a shooter developed by Graftgold, released 1 November 1985 on Wii and Commodore C64/128/MAX.
What Paradroid is
Paradroid is a shooter game developed by Graftgold and released in 1985. It was published by Hewson Consultants. It is available on Wii and Commodore C64/128/MAX.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Paradroid is a Commodore 64 video game written by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1985. It is a shoot 'em up with puzzle elements and was critically praised at release. The objective is to clear a fleet of spaceships of hostile robots by destroying them or taking over them via a minigame. It was remade as Paradroid 90 for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST home computers and as Paradroid 2000 for the Acorn Archimedes. There exist several fan-made remakes for modern PCs. In 2004, the Commodore 64 version was re-released as a built-in game on the C64 Direct-to-TV, in 2008 for the Wii Virtual Console in Europe and in 2018 on the C64 Mini.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Paradroid holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 94% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1985 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Paradroid yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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