#atomic robo kid

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USA 1990

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PC Engine: The Box Art Collection

Every page in PC Engine: The Box Art Collection is packed with thoughtful, exciting design – just like those PC Engine game covers. And every game featured includes an insightful review and expert summary.

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Japanese Advertisement 'Atomic Robo-Kid' SEGA Mega Drive

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Atomic Robo-Kid ad (Video Games & Computer Entertainment #22, Nov. 1990)

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1 Hour Of Obscure Arcade Game Music

I feel music from arcade games is sadly highly overlooked and they have some great tunes that many people don't know of, so for this video, I put together some great lesser known arcade game music for everyone's listening pleasure. Please enjoy this: https://youtu.be/Vi52yyzKbbo

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ROUND 2: POLL #4

ROUND TWO POLLS [HERE]

PROPAGANDA BELOW

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Shanks:

I don't think I completely understood the meaning of a DILF until this man showed up. He is physically amazing and I 100% believe he would respect anyone he shares a bunk with. The way he took to Luffy and became his paternal roll model is beautiful. That shows that it's not always about the amount of time you spend with the kid, but the quality of it which is important. He is not a confirmed biological dad, but he is Luffy's (as just stated) and it is a popular theory that he is the father of Makino's child. (plus Uta)

Guys, I want to have his baby--and I don't even know if I want kids.

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Dr. Atomic Robo Tesla:

He has an adoptive robot son (spoiler, happens later in the comic) and has a dad bod that given his ability to modify himself has to be a choice at this point. He is 83 (in the present at the start of the comic) but he has pure DILF rather than GILF energies. I mean just look at him.

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[bluef00t]

thoughts on the ironhide storyline?

Knights of the Golden Circle: the Atomic Robo arc so peak that it's singled out in the site preview blurb.

Well, I'm assuming you mean that, and there isn't an Ironhide RSA I missed. (I'd read it! I prefer the spinoff genre characters to the real-person teams, which may defeat the purpose of the title Real Science Adventures, but whatever.)

"Thoughts." That's vague. Well, I love the bonkers set-up. There are other arcs that can absolutely only be done once (Ghost of Station X, Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur, Vengeful Dead), but only this one has the quality of Brian + Scott leaning in like "Okay. We know. We swore that causality is sacred and there will be NO time shenanigans, and that's STILL true. But just this once we're going to bend our own rule slightly, because we really, really, really want our robot to get to be a cowboy. Thanks for understanding."

The art's fantastic. I'm glad this one made it under the wire for the era of pencil-lined Robo volumes because the subtle textures really complete the grungy dusty look. The colors, too. Robo's electric blue and vril's crystalline pink stand out like alien intrusions in the sepia-toned world. Mwah.

My first time reading, I felt like it was a cop-out on the stable time loop to make Ironhide real in his own right. But since then my opinion has reversed! It cultivates a real air of Old West legend for Robo to be preceded by whispers of a reputation so shrouded in mystery that he doesn't even know it. I now actually think it should've taken Robo until maybe his dozenth public superhuman feat to realize I May Be Contributing To The Legend Somewhat.

Robo's initial interest in Ironhide strikes me as a riff on kids latching onto representation in comics. Especially when characters "like you" are stereotyped or absent, so you imprint on someone who isn't supposed to be like you, but represents your personal experience way more. But I'm probably projecting there.

Paradoxically to my RSA opinions, I like historical cameos in Robo proper. Holliday + Reeves + Robo are a really fun trio. Helsie is a fine "final boss", but I'm glad more time was spent on Caldwell's gang to get our fill of saloon shootouts and train chases first.

As an aside—pulps have a tendency to pick a villain from an "anti-American" political group with little thought put toward their underlying ideologies. (Which is how you get "our blonde superhuman can out-punch the Nazi ubermensch, so there" and incoherent Soviet/Nazi team-ups.) I point this out to say that the writing in Robo is generally better than that. It may tiptoe around historical politics a little (Helsingard is a Nazi collaborator, the Knights used to be Confederates), but the pulpy cyborg plot keeps at least one throughline: these were people in the human trafficking business for power and profit. And of the legends of the old west, Bass Reeves would have some very strong convictions about that.

Honestly a weakness here is that the story gives you a lot of hints in place of explanations and just trusts you'll work it out. Like the FIFTEEN YEAR timeskip. I only NOW, writing this, realized that the dates on the wall (which make no sense as "where am I in history?" guesses) are probably reactor lifespan calculations.

It's a better problem to have than agonizing infodumps or actual plot holes, but in some cases I liked my initial assumptions better than the real answers! Like, I first thought he was using his own heart to power his gadgets, and that's what was killing him so fast. Would've been metal if true. (I guess he did rebuild himself to make that possible later.)

Well, even minus that. It's a tasty cowboy trope for the protagonist to know they're already dying (or I've just listened to Streets of Laredo too many times) and a great time travel trope for the ending to be a foregone conclusion and our protagonist to still fight like hell to the bitter end. Yesssss.

In a way, this is already how readers experience the historical stories, trying to piece together the cost for this preordained victory with scraps of historical knowledge and faith that it will all make sense eventually. But this time Robo's in on it, too.

[tenaflyviper]

A few picks from my queue, all currently free to watch on Tubi TV.

Horror:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Blood and Black Lace (1964)

The Wizard of Gore (1970)

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Rabid (1977)

Suspiria (1977)

City of the Living Dead (1980)

Next of Kin (1982)

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

The Toxic Avenger (1984)

House (1985)

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

The Stuff (1985)

Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)

Hellraiser (1987)

Meet the Feebles (1989)

The Dead Next Door (1990)

Santa Sangre (1990)

Bride of Re-Animator (1991)

Troll 2 (1991)

Ozone (1994)

Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995)

El Día de la bestia (1995)

Audition (1999)

Battle Royale (2000)

The Convent (2000)

Ginger Snaps (2000)

May (2001)

Undead (2003)

Train to Busan (2016)

Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2020)

Comedy:

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1977)

The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

SGT. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1993)

Series:

Freddy's Nightmares (1988)

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993)

The Kids in the Hall

Musicals:

Forbidden Zone (1980)

The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Animated:

The Last Unicorn (1982)

Project A-ko (1986)

When the Wind Blows (1987)

Other:

Robo Vampire (1988)

Bad Boy Bubby (1993)

Manborg (2013)

Documentaries:

Film House Fever (1985)

Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986)

Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout (1990)

Reflections on the Living Dead (1993)

Zombie Jamboree '93 (1993)

Flesh & Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994)

Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005)

Horror Effects: Hosted by Tom Savini (2008)

Not Quite Hollywood (2008)

The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels (2008)

Monsterland (2009)

Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue (2009)

American Grindhouse (2010)

Celluloid Bloodbath (2012)

Eurocrime! (2012)

Inside Horror (2012)

Trailer War (2012)

Vampira and Me (2012)

Adjust Your Tracking (2013)

Birth of the Living Dead (2013)

Horrible Horror (2013)

I Am Divine (2013)

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of Horror (2014)

42nd Street Memories (2015)

Kings of Cult (2015)

Monsters Among Us (2015)

Blood on the Reel (2016)

Ghostheads (2016)

VHS Massacre (2016)

Greetings from Tromaville (2017)

King Cohen (2018)

Popcorn Fodder (2019)

Survival of the Film Freaks (2019)

VHS Nasty (2019)

Direct to Video: Straight to Video Horror of the 90's (2020)

Fulci for Fake (2020)

Hail to the Deadites (2020)

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time Vol 1 - Midnight Madness (2020)

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time Vol 2 - Horror & Sci-Fi (2020)

Hollywood in the Atomic Age (2021)

Oh! The Horror! (2021)

100 Years of Horror

[doolallymagpie]

an atomic robo-TMNT crossover where robo ends up being the jack tarot to the turtles’ “kid robo”

a thought, use it as you wish

[starry-skies-116]

All is well in The Afton Family Apparently~

First we have just some guy/businessman, but that guy’s actually a literal sociopath/dark empath that’s driven to the brink of insanity by his youngest son’s death and starts taking it out on other kids (including offing his best friends)

Then we have literally one of the best mothers ever someone give this woman a hug and a massive raise at her job

Then we have a dramatic ass gay thespian teenage boy, but he’s secretly a hormonal teenager who secretly copes with emotional neglect and authoritarian parenting from his Dad by running away from his responsibilities and ignoring his true feelings- also parentified at a young ass age, someone help the poor guy. (Also he’s a dyslexic synesthesiac, crowds and glitching screens basically are a surefire way to mindfuck him).

The middle child that doesn't know what having a fixed gender or what sexual and romantic attraction is, and he’s the smart, nerdy and spiritually mature child but also a chronically mentally ill autistic baby with raging queerness who grew up undiagnosed, bullied and severely emotionally neglected and continues silently spiraling into further crippling depression and psychosis due to being the ‘outlier’ +his guilty conscience, nightmares and hallucinations and delusions, and heavy suicidal ideation that literally nobody knows about not even his own family as his environment crumbles around him leaving him more and more traumatized (SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER GO BRR).

The youngest and most responsible child and only daughter and the golden child, except BURNT OUT GIFTED KID SYNDROME WHO CAN’T EVER FEEL PROUD OF HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS EVER AGAIN AND HAS TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE WHO ARE OLDER THAN HER AND HAS RESPONSIBILITY THRUST UPON HER EVERY DAMN TIME (UNDIAGNOSED ADHD AND ANXIETY WE LOVE TO SEE IT).

Then one goes MIA, one ends up trapped in a rotting yellow bunny suit and goes on to evolve into the overarching villain disguised as a fucking computer virus.

Then another has his head crushed by an animatronic and his soul and essence shattered and scattered into smithereens, his body reforged on the fundamental level via manipulation of remnant and both physical and metaphysical +biological matter down to his very blood, flesh, organs and bones, reengineering EVERY FUCKING CELL AND ATOM AND MOLECULE OF HIS BODY into an immortal, near-perfect artificial cyborg robo-body before. literally being sealed away into a 60 year long slumber and waking up before committing some crimes VERY hesitantly to mourn his trauma and repressed rage and grief and try to find/fix his family as well as recollect his memories/remaining shattered "self".

Another gets trapped inside an animatronic she's obsessed with before proceeding to be trapped in an underground facility, then also commits several atrocities before being lured into and trapped inside a burning Pizzeria, then she merges souls with a girl born into the future and becomes a security guard who's also a bunny suit-wearing serial killer.

And then another gets a fucking organ transplant with an oversized spoon, gets piloted around like a mech-suit by his younger sibling, vomits machinery out and turns into a purple and rotting walking reanimated corpse via the sheer power of human souls and life-creating, reality-altering substances, burns down in a Pizzeria with his father and sister, and then possesses/takes refuge inside the body of a futuristic animatronic before proceeding to reunite with his younger brother, both of whom remain oblivious to the other's identities (including their sister's and Father's) and he gets piloted around like a fucking Voltron or MechX4 mech suit. Again.

Come join the trauma family today lol~

[crappy-homestuck-confessions]

Headcanon anon here with characters who would be best friends with the kids...from other fictional works!

John-Monkey D. Luffy Rose-Susan So Helit Dave-Jack Knight Jade-Atomic Robo Terezi-Bugs Bunny Kanaya-Michiru Kaiou Tavros-Ma-Ti Karkat-Edward Elric Sollux-Hackerman Feferi-Aerith Gainsborough Eridan-Edward Cullen Nepeta-Aisha Clan-Clan Equius-Grell Sutcliffe Meenah-Nami (One Piece) Vriska-Sweet Dee (It's Always Sunny) Jane-Megumi Tadokoro Jake-Kenneth Parcell Roxy-Abby Sciuto Dirk-Moon Girl (Marvel Comics) Aradia-Molly Hayes Gamzee-Jude Lizowski Damara-Mitsuko Soma Rufioh-General Iroh II

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[semi-imaginary-place]

pluto 2

ch39: "you would know wouldn't you" is darius talking to geischt or to the us teddy bear super computer. There's several panels of a surveillance camera so it could be both. The field of flowers both darius and robo pluto were trying to draw it.

40: pluto the tulip that survived when all other wilted to dust. is the manga implying this tulip cannibalized the others and thats why its prohibited from being planted in the ground?

Abra dead and revived with robotics? Or abra dead dead and thats an imposter. Wait nothing ever grew where the pluto tulip was ever again?

Ahh sahad is pluto or more accurately was made into pluto the whole stronger body thing

47. Did they just kill off the main character. Chad move

48. Damn. 3 robots struggling to keep track of the names. Wow the un + us really did burn persia to the ground. Ok so abra was developing giant war robot bora. Tenma shoved the personas of 6 billion ppl into a goji and it went comatose. Idk how much the 2 collaborated here. Abra dies in bombing but digitized a part of his brain. Tenma uploads it to to goji and the strong emotions awaken them learning hatred, rage, sorrow so now goji's going by the name abra and is consumed with revenge. They then shove sahad's ai into bora creating pluto and instilling in them a revenge quest. I don't know what was up with pluto's body hopping. And now tenma is uploading geischt's data onto atom. I don't get why they donct have atom's mind data to use

Epsilon's totally dead

51. Who are the 2 sorrows? Still weird uran and teddy bear arent considered part of the greatest ais

55. Back to atom. Reread a section and dr tenma's repairs fixed him physically but like goji he's stuck in infinite simulation. Geischt's last emotion was strong hatred. But the moment before new atom opened their eyes is when epsilon was killed and they and pluto rained the world with sorrow. I dont know what up with that thracia crack but something up

56. Us thracia really the big bad here

Turning indigenous ppl into a tourist attraction. Yeah.

58. Why does that elevator not have guard rails. Oh woops did i get goji confused with someone else? Ok so goji is the persian scientist who made the incomplete giant bora that roboabra is telepathically controlling. Ok yeah he was goji tenna's greatest ai and scientist goji never existed. Huh i thought the cockroaches were controlled by abra /pluto were they thracia this whole time??

59. Hmm did atom and geischt hivemind? "Robots dont lie" his says as he blatantly lies

60. Oh split personality i qas giving robo abra more credit than he actually deserved

61. The author is blowing up yosemite and causing volcanic winter. Thats so good (plot wise). Well we finally have teddy bear's agenda: robots take over the world.

62. Tenma might have made the greatest ai but ochanomizu made the most emotional robot

After 65 chapters we finally have the reveal that uh... criminal dude killed geischts kid and thats why ge lost it and murderer him.

In atom we see the possibility to overcome hatred or to feel hatred but choose not to destroy. There's strong themes of creation vs destruction here. "Nothing will be born from hatred" and creation being tied to plants with bora originally being a forestation robot reprogrammed into a world ending bomb, and sahad originally trying to un-dessert persia and fill it with flowers. Hoji is overwhelmed by hatred and does nothing but destroy. Thracia uses says the forestation robots are weapons if mass destruction as rational to destroy persia.

Of course there's the "what makes a human" question repeatedly discussed. A human is imperfect so a perfect robot is imperfect it hates, it kills, it lies. There's many times where robots are difficult to tell from humans like geischt, uran, atom, and goji (so much he thought he was human.

Really good story overall, i do love plot. This series is some of the best I've seen at narrative tension which I suppose is expected from a thriller author.

[screamingreek]

Atomic Robo-Kid - Sega Genesis - Still Sealed

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The Japanese cover artwork for 'Atomic Robo-Kid’ on the Mega Drive.

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Down Megabit Lane.

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Preliminary Poll #6

PRELIMINARY POLLS [HERE]

PROPAGANDA BELOW

Jim:

Look this man raised his nephew and is gay. He literally has twinks fighting over him. His dick game is so good that he dickmatized a guy into working for him for free for like a year on the off chance he could hit again without even trying. He kid-zones one of the guys who is in love with him.

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Dr. Atomic Robo Tesla:

He has an adoptive robot son (spoiler, happens later in the comic) and has a dad bod that given his ability to modify himself has to be a choice at this point. He is 83 (in the present at the start of the comic) but he has pure DILF rather than GILF energies. I mean just look at him.

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