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No.1

Robot wants Icecream

Also in the series:

Robot wants Kitty

Robot wants Puppy

Robot wants Fishy

Why it's number one?

This was the first game I found in the Robot wants series. And once I started playing through the ground stages, I was hooked. I don't know whether it was the appealing and charming retro 16-bit style graphics or the amazingly thought out platforming and level design, but the game is brilliant.

The aim of the game, like it's predecessors is to get what robot wants. In the original (Robot wants Kitty - 8-bit style), Robot had to regain kitty who lied, teasingly, just above him. This pattern returned in Robot wants Puppy, where Puppy was on the other side of a key coded door, and Robot wants Fishy, where Fishy lied teasingly close, underneath poor old Robot. But in this final voyage by our beloved Robot, the item searched for is nowhere in sight. This makes us more eager to go forth and try and unlock the knowledge of where about the ice cream is.

To be fair, I don't believe any one really treats this game how it deserves to be treated. Instead of being treated as a brilliant platform puzzler, it's treated as a joke by modern society for it's 'pitiful' graphics and 'stupid' name. Be clear Robot lovers, these are not the opinions I support! Once you start playing this game, the charm just sucks you in.

I believe this has the best story yet. For Kitty's past crimes, he/she/it was sent into space by our hero, the illustrious Robot. I think this follows brutal hatred and imprisonment in either Robot wants Puppy (where I believe Kittys motive would be anti-doggy, why have you abandoned me - or something like that!) or Robot wants Fishy (where Kitty's motive would be crystal clear - It would want to eat the Fishy). I don't know as I only played through Robot wants Kitty and Robot want Icecream.

This is because I was annoyed by Robot wants Puppys different approach to the game with cat claws to collect (aaaaaa! - this is almost definitely the game that gave reason for Kitty to be abandoned) with it's Kitty thrower attack (uuuum! - maybe not. So Robot wants Fishy becomes the prime suspect again!), with took an age to destroy does little green tikes. I was also annoyed with Robot wants Fishy grenade launcher mechanism. Why did you abort the normal shooting? There was no need and that's what made[Robot want] Fishy and [Robot wants] Puppy so annoying! Any way, luckily, [Robot wants] Icecream fixes that irritating problem, letting us enjoy this brilliantly designed game.

But what interests me most is what the websites that this game is stored on provide. But mostly Kongregate. Joining Kongregates many gamers allows you to do challenges for points and badges. 3 of which are on [Robot wants] Icecream. These are enjoyable little challenge to give Robot wants Icecream a little more replay value!

• The easy challenge involves you completing a simple task. Collect any 10 power ups and hit the computeron. They don't need to be different, just get them!
• If you weren't satisfied by the easy challenges 5 points, then the medium challenge asks you to complete the game and beat the final boss - Tomb Stone - and collect your well earned Icecream. You get 15 points for this.
• The hard challenge is hell!. You must defeat ALL bosses in Madcap mode. That means you must destroy the following ground bosses - Safetybot, Angry box, Holey Moley,  Destructo, CHAR-07 (the spider like boss), the space sip boss (whom which I can not seem to name), allong with the following bosses in the ship - Core Security Alpha (x2), Nanoplasma (the bacterial shaped boss who multiplies *shudders*), and the Uberboxen, along with the final boss, Tomb Stone/Kitty!?!

How does it compare to other games? 

Dragon Quest IX got 94%. DQIX was one of the most original games on Nintendo DS, yet this free game beats it for charm and character by just 2%. Well done Robot1