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Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Xybots Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! It surprises me a great deal that a sequel was not created. Xybots will always be remembered as the most underrated arcade game of the 80s. A personal account of how I remember popular culture of the time. Are you sure you want to delete this comment?

Are you sure you want to delete this comment thread? It was a fun game, though what I found the most unique about it was the fact that it had 2 player split-screen instead of forcing both players to be on the screen at once or to alternate like most games. Man this game was a helluva lotta fun back in the day. Definitely ahead of it's time. I loved the modified joystick controller. I remember this game as well and being one of my favorites.

I liked the fact that you had money to spend on certain items, and it seemed that buying certain items affected how the next level was laid out. It was almost like a small RPG in a sense. Hornets inside an arcade is a prehistoric kind of Force Feedback or whatever that vibrating system is called :P. I don't think kids of today could appreciate a game like this.

Yeah, this was a cool game. You can get it on an arcade favorites for X- box. In a later indignity, Tonka was bought out by Hasbro. The GoBots live on somewhat in occasional homage toys in the Transformers line and as cannonfodder troops in a few Transformers comics. They also had some cool vehicles and bases. Give Transformers all the credit they deserve, but Hasbro never gave kids an Optimus Prime that could walk around their homes and serve drinks.

For many of us, these toys usually became the less famous, nameless denizens of Cybertron. Although they had no comic book or cartoon to depict their battles, there were over 30 Convertors toys released and they sported some nifty designs that often had a crazier aesthetic than the Transformers.

The Convertors licensed some designs from Bandai just like was done for Transformers, meaning some of the toys looked eerily like the Deluxe Autobots, Deluxe Insecticons and Jetfire. Convertors even had knock-offs made of them! While somewhat GoBot-like, they had unique designs and features, like a fire truck that had a different robot on its front and back when transformed, and a very odd Zybot combiner.

But battle began among the robots when the Destructors revolted due to fear of being deactivated upon the return of humans. The toys were very cool, with parts that could be exchanged between robots and motorized features which makes sense, since they were an offshoot of Zoids. Like Transformers, some of the toys were available in different color schemes as different characters. Also like Transformers, they had an awesome Marvel comic book. But the Starriors did not meet the same success, and this extremely cool and offbeat toyline was left in the dust of the deserts in which its robot warriors fought.

While being motorized was a nice feature, you had to take the robots totally apart to transform them into construction vehicles.