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Ben, Jason, and special guest Dave "Velociraptor" of This Week in Retro take on a double dose of robot-themed games. First up is Souls of Darkon by Andy Walker, published by Taskset and Bug-Byte for Amstrad CPC, Spectrum, and Commodore 64. The robot "Komputa" aids the player on their quest to combat a variety of dread evil forces.

For the main course we take on Epyx's text adventure adaptation of Isaac Asimov's novel The Robots of Dawn, written by Jon Leupp. The team note the substantial departure from the book's plotlines, the surplus of empty offices, and some inconsistencies between the Apple II and Commodore 64 versions.

Ben solves a decades-long gaming mystery, plus there's a cat and a mouse and only one of them survives to the end of the episode!

Souls of Darkon (MobyGames)

Souls of Darkon (MOCAGH)

The Robots of Dawn (MobyGames)

The Robots of Dawn (MOCAGH)

The Robots of Dawn (playable online, C64)

The Robots of Dawn (playable online, Apple)

The Robots of Dawn by Asimov (novel, Wikipedia)

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