Gyromite [5 Screw]
Gyromite [5 Screw]
Gyromite [5 Screw]
Gyromite [5 Screw]
Gyromite [5 Screw]
Gyromite [5 Screw]

Gyromite [5 Screw]

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Gyromite holds a fascinating place in NES history as one of the very first games released for the system in North America, arriving with the console's 1985 launch. It was designed around R.O.B., the Robotic Operating Buddy, the chunky grey accessory Nintendo used to pitch its new machine to wary toy retailers as something more than a video game console in the aftermath of the 1983 crash. Even if R.O.B. is not part of your setup, Gyromite is a wonderfully odd artifact from the moment Nintendo was working out how to sell the NES to America.

The game stars Professor Hector, a scientist who has to gather the dynamite scattered around his laboratory while steering clear of the Smicks, small creatures with a weakness for radishes that he can drop in their path as a distraction. The puzzle comes from the red and blue pillars that crisscross each stage. Raising and lowering them opens paths, blocks danger and can trap enemies, and in the original setup that job belonged to R.O.B., who spun gyroscopes and set them on buttons to shift the columns. Without the robot, a second controller can move the pillars directly, which turns the game into a surprisingly fun cooperative act: one person guides the professor while the other works the machinery, and the timing between you decides whether Hector makes it through.

Gyromite and Stack-Up made up Nintendo's Robot Series, the only two games built for R.O.B., and Gyromite is the one most players actually met, because it was packed in with the robot in the NES Deluxe Set alongside Duck Hunt and the Zapper. That bundle is why so many people who started with the NES at launch still have a soft spot for Professor Hector and his pillars.

The five-screw label in this title refers to the cartridge shell Nintendo used on its earliest NES production, assembled with five screws before the company standardized on a three-screw design. Paired with a launch title built for a robot, that construction ties this game to the platform's first days in North America, and it makes a fitting centerpiece for a shelf devoted to the strangest and most inventive experiments of the early NES.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1985
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Nintendo R&D1
Players
Single player, Multiplayer, Co-op, Split screen
About the game

Gyromite is a video game released in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, designed for use with the Robotic Operating Buddy (R.O.B.). Gyromite is one of two games in Nintendo's Robot Series, the other being Stack-Up

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