R.O.B.

"Primary Objective: Eliminate all games that don't meet criteria. Criteria equals Gyromite and Stack-Up. Primary objective complete. No more passwords. No more annoying music. No more despicable controls. No more barf-inducing graphics. No more useless weapons like before. In 1983, the video game market was over-saturated with inferior games, all a product of human imperfection. The video game crash left many game companies bankrupt. A prophecy was told that a hero would rise from the ashes - a robot warrior that is I."

- R.O.B the Robot from the Angry Video Game Nerd

R.O.B. (short for Robotic Operating Buddy) and also known as Family Computer Robot in Japan, was an accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System. He was created in the same time as the NES and came with several attachments for the games he operated on. He has been a Nintendo icon appearing in the Super Smash Bros. franchise since Brawl and made small appearances in other games, such as appearing as an unlockable character in mh:awesomegames:Mario Kart DS.

Why He's Not Our Robotic Operating Buddy

 * 1) He was only capable of interacting with two games, Gyromite and Stack-Up.
 * 2) R.O.B. requires 4 AA batteries, and the gyro spinner requires one D battery.
 * 3) R.O.B. moves very slowly, so it takes a very long time to press a button in Gyromite. This makes him very dull to play with.
 * 4) It takes time to set up R.O.B.'s attachments.
 * 5) It is very easy to lose track of the parts while building him.
 * 6) Like the NES Zapper, R.O.B. only works with CRT TVs, as his optics are similar to light gun sensors, and light guns do not work properly with a modern LCD/OLED TV/monitors due to input lag.

His Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) While the toy R.O.B. was awful, Nintendo did some decent representation of the toy by creating the character, R.O.B., based off the toy, and he appears in Mario Kart DS and the Super Smash Bros. series since Brawl as a playable character.

Place in history
R.O.B. played a huge role in rejuvenating the North American console market. Due to the North American Video Game Crash of 1983, Nintendo had a hard time getting stores to stock the NES since they saw it as just another console that wouldn't sell. R.O.B. was created and Nintendo pitched the NES as the control unit for a toy robot that happened to be able to play game cartridges. Robots were a big thing at the time, and toy stores accepted this pitch and stocked the NES with the R.O.B. accessory. Along with this, Nintendo released a little game called Super Mario Bros. Within a year, a million NES consoles were sold and Nintendo stopped selling R.O.B. as it had done its job.

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