Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In 1993 a revolutionary next generation fighting game idea was born. It was set to raise the bar of what a next generation graphics would be. The fighting game would feature prerendered 3d robots in front of 3d rendered backgrounds all rendered in 3D Studio with 'hundreds' of animation frames. That game was Rise of the Robots and released on almost every major computer and console platform at the time. The media hyped up the game so much and when it arrived it was a disaster. Here is the story of how Rise of the Robots went from a unique idea to one of the worst games ever released and how the video game media lied to its readers.

Sources/Credits:

youtube.com/watch?v=b546GLPTodY
youtube.com/watch?v=omyoJ7onNrg
youtube.com/watch?v=lqHXaWoCuAY
youtube.com/watch?v=FcMRkyoHKeA
youtube.com/watch?v=v0ttgGe-RRs
youtube.com/watch?v=Nt4AztZ5UDs
youtube.com/watch?v=9j1ULagIEh0
archive.org/details/EDGE.The.100.most.significant.reviews.2001/page/8/mode/1up
archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_40/page/n41/mode/1up

Rise of the Robots SNES OST
Composer: Richard Joseph

Timestamps:

00:00 - 03:37 Introduction
03:38 - 08:19 Formation of Mirage
08:20 - 09:40 The Bitmap Brothers
09:41 - 14:24 The Development team
14:25 - 21:28 Marketing hype
21:29 - 29:34 Release of the Game and ports
29:35 - 31:04 What went wrong/Retrospective
31:04 - 32:16 Rise 2: Resurrection
32:17 - 34:26 Conclusion

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