The Legendary Jeff Minter Returns With A New Psychedelic Arcade Reimagining – Nintendo Life
GuestGuestLogin | Sign UpNintendo LifeGuestLogin or Sign UpBig Brother is watching…You really don’t need us to tell you that a new Jeff Minter game is coming. You know a Jeff Minter game when you see a Jeff Minter game. That said, yes, a new Jeff Minter game is coming.I, Robot is a new psychedelic reimagining of the 1984 arcade classic of the same name, with Llamasoft and Atari partnering up once again after their previous efforts on Akka Arrh and Tempest 4000. Due for launch in Spring 2025, it’ll be gracing the Nintendo Switch as a digital download (though given Atari’s strong history with physical releases, we can probably expect a boxed version later down the line – make sure your wishes are heard!).In a brief statement, Atari’s vice president of games, Ethan Sterns, said the following:“Throughout his 45-year career, Jeff Minter has retained the spirit of a true indie developer, pursuing game concepts that catch his interest, working with a purposefully small team, and infusing his creations with his unique personal style. I, Robot — a reimagining of an obscure Atari arcade cabinet featuring a robot who has problems with authority — is quintessential Minter.”Here’s a look at the key features:- 55 platforming and arena levels
– Unique tube-shooter bonus stages between each level
– Llamasoft’s unique brand of mind-melting visuals
– Procedural music that builds as you excel
– Online leaderboardsWe’ll be sure to let you know when more information about I, Robot – including its release date – becomes available.Yak in timeWhat do you make of this new announcement from Atari and Llamasoft? Will you be picking it up? Let us know with a comment down below.About Ollie ReynoldsNintendo Life’s resident horror fanatic, when he’s not knee-deep in Resident Evil and Silent Hill lore, Ollie likes to dive into a good horror book while nursing a lovely cup of tea. He also enjoys long walks and listens to everything from TOOL to Chuck Berry.Comments 28Nice, happy for those interested in this – might eventually give it a try myself, too!The opening paragraph is making me very insecure about not knowing who Jeff Minter is. That said, that trailer makes my eyes want to bleed, in a good way…I think. So I guess I should go figure out what I’ve been missing.I always like some of his game although the more I play a lot of them the more they all started to feel like just more of Tempest 2000. I recently play his older titles, Space Giraffe, Gridrunner, and Polybius on Steam Deck and quite enjoy those as well so yeah I’m looking forward to this one.I, Robot was definitely an interesting arcade game to “Llamasoftize” and I love it. Really curious to see if they’re going to remake that drawing side “game” that was also included on the original cabinets.Shame the VR is exclusive to PS5, same with Akka Arrh, I’ve got a PSVR2 but these releases are much cheaper on Steam.I rather just play the original arcade game.Jeff Minter always goes way over the top with the flashy FX, and I just find it annoying and distracting.So … a game on drugs ?! 😵”… though given Atari’s strong history with physical releases, we can probably expect a boxed version later down the line …”I’m sure we’ll see Atari physical releases, re-releases and re-re-releases down the line across every console that ever appears hereafter.It was one of the rarest cabinets out there back in the day, though I never knew that since I played it in a random supermarket near my cousin’s neighborhood one summer.Can’t wait to play it again, since the original will likely be included, as well as this trippy new version.Most comprehensable Llamasoft game.As for physical, while Wade’s Atari has managed to worm it’s way into my sycophancy circle along with THQNordic and City Connection by being more aggressive than either of those in helping to grow back the American AA retail market (even if there’s been a couple Tiny annoyances along the way), they aren’t perfect in that regard.That is to say, they haven’t fully divorced themselves from Jeff Fairhurst’s nonsense and insulting perfunktoriness. You see, the first two Gold Masters games have been leakes by PEGI as coming to retail from Clear River Games. While Clear River and GoE are god-sends for the European market, that means us Americans are stuck with Joshy boy as our sub-contractor. Most insulting is that while I would loce to blindly support Clear River they have no intention of putting a boot on LRG to get them to improve their insultingly slow and inconsistent American pipeline. Seeing fit to give firm release dates to Europe and Japan, but leaving us in America as that egotists’ dart board.Sorry, my blinding rage got me off track there again. The important thing is, while Atari has been increasing their retail presence nothing is guaranteed for I, Robot 2.0. NeoSprint and Food Fight: Culinary Combat have been confirmed to not becoming to Retail since they’re so online focused, Fatal Run 2047 is still up in the air, and Atari’s last THREE collaborations with Llamasoft all went to LRG. Granted, those are all with * and conditions: Tempest 4000 was before Wade had re-established physical piplines for Atari 50, Gold Master 2 is going to Clear River specifically meaning it WILL go to retail it’s just a spin of the roulette wheel when the ESRB copy will release, and Akka Arrh was too experimental for the 70’s let alone a general consumer in modern age.That’s all I have to say about thatI’ve played “Akka Arrh” for 15 minutes… There was nothing to do apart watching chains of explosion, and trying to figure out what the point was (I’ve never figured out) —> “Uninstall game”.15 seconds of this trailer have burnt my retina, so “no way Jose” (I meant Jeff).Never played the original but looks fun. I want a remake of Hovver Bovver! One of my Commodore 64 favourites as a kid.A lovely. A new minter game. That brings some color to this grey wednesday!Love Llamasoft. The games are always so bizarre, and that’s a huge part of why I play games. Just weird art.I once met Jeff Minter at a nightclub that had been taken over for the night for a celebration of Commodore 64 music. This was probably 20 years ago. A great night was had by all and Jeff was very approachable.My comment may be short, it is simply ‘day one’Wow another migraine in a game from Jeff Minter (I do love Minter games but my eyes just hurt from watching the video)Is this the first game to feature the word ‘bosh’?LOVE IT!Ahh Jeff Minter, yes, yes… No idea.Jeff Minter… boosting epileptic medication sales since the 1980’s!OG I, Robot was wild enough on Atari 50, but sure, I’ll give this extra psychedelic version a try.Why not add it to a physical edition of last year’s Llamasoft Collection? It’s high time we got a physical release for that.@Teksette Yep, waiting on limited run to release a physical version too!I was hoping he was doing an adaptation of the Will Smith movie…Oh Yakety Yak, I’m gonna talk back! I’m having this.Don’t suppose you fancy doing a remake of Iridis Alpha or Batalyx, do you…?If games are art, then this would be a masterclass example. I was impressed with Akka Arrh. I’m loving the way this game looks and am very interested in playing it. I love the abstract wackiness of these games, and it captures well how games then of this style “should” look and sound today (assuming gaming never progressed past those days).might pick it up if its cheap enough.Yeah. Well done Jeff Minter. This looks amazing.@thiswaynow small world, I was there too 😎@gingerbeardman Wow, that’s amazing, there can’t have been more than 100 people there! Small world, as you say… I was thinking about that evening yesterday after making the comment and delighted the rest of the household with some classic retro tunes (not Jeff Minter related but the Crazy Comet theme has been living in my brain since 1984). Happy memories. 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