Bobot or drone Battle Arena game from 90's [The Machines]

dranoweb · Post by **dranoweb** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 8:39 pm

I attempted this post in September last year and after fighting with the word filter for nearly a month I simply gave up - the frustration was simply too much for the sake of a game, but now I'm back as the memory of this game just won't die and it's bugging me badly.

so here goes:

I used to play a battle-bot style game post in approx 2002.

The game would have originated about 1994 - ish.

It revolved around constructing and battling remote control robots (not cyborgs)
There was a career mode with all the usual bits that come with it.

There was part of the game with great artwork that depicted a futuristic street scene, a bit like chinatown where you could select different vendors, Including a couple of black market sellers.

The menu was a static image of a china-town-like street - and one had to visually locate the storefronts from within the image.

Particular upgrades became available as one progressed up the ladder.
I also seem to remember that there were some different tournaments etc as well, but my memory is fuzzy on that part.

I have concluded that this was an obscure dev - as was my taste in the day.

dranoweb · Post by **dranoweb** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 8:40 pm

Games that this is not:
OMF 2097
Battletech
Battle Team 1
Battle Team 2
Battlerace
Battlesport
Robosport
Robot Oddyssey
Robotron 2084
War Robots
War inc (though this looks pretty cool)

Quadko · Post by **Quadko** » Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:00 pm

Rise of the Robots series? OMF series would have been first guess.

You know about mobygames.com and searching lists there? Just making sure.

dranoweb · Post by **dranoweb** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:09 am

No, not OMF2097 or rise of the robots.

Not humanoid

This was more along the lines of battlebots, but considerably earlier.

dranoweb · Post by **dranoweb** » Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:50 pm

Ok so after literally years of searching, and fighting with this forum's word filters, I finally worked it out:

"The Machines"
A horribly creative name if I ever saw one.

I found a website that details it - this is the link:

http://superadventuresingaming.blogspot ... s-dos.html

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Sat Feb 20, 2021 5:08 am

Good that you found it, and thanks for the update; there is also a Mobygames page (with the Amiga name 'Universal Warrior' as primary)

https://www.mobygames.com/game/universal-warrior

dranoweb · Post by **dranoweb** » Sat Feb 20, 2021 6:05 am

Yes I had just come back to post that it was apparently a dos port of universal warrior.

That explains the crazy key assignments.
I happen to have an amiga 2000 with all the upgrades siting in my shed.
I might fire it up again before parting with it.