Paradroid
| Paradroid | |
|---|---|
American cover art | |
| Developer(s) | Graftgold |
| Publisher(s) | Hewson Consultants Jester Interactive Publishing |
| Designer(s) | Andrew Braybrook |
| Platform(s) | Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, C64 Direct-to-TV, Virtual Console, iOS (ZX Spectrum Elite Collection) |
| Release | 1985 |
| Genre(s) | Shoot 'em up, puzzle |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Paradroid is a Commodore 64 video game written by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1985. It is a shoot 'em up with puzzle elements and was critically praised at release. The objective is to clear a fleet of spaceships of hostile robots by destroying them or taking over them via a minigame. It was remade as Paradroid 90 for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST home computers and as Paradroid 2000 for the Acorn Archimedes. There exist several fan-made remakes for modern PCs. In 2004, the Commodore 64 version was re-released as a built-in game on the C64 Direct-to-TV, in 2008 for the Wii Virtual Console in Europe and in 2018 on the C64 Mini.