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No game was hyped as bad as this flop!!
In the annals of video game history, few titles have managed to garner as much pre-release hype and post-release disappointment as “Rise of the Robots.” This was a game that promised the moon but delivered a handful of space dust.
Every gaming magazine of the early ’90s was plastered with previews and ads for “Rise of the Robots.” Electronic Gaming Monthly, GamePro, and others featured glowing articles about the game’s cutting-edge technology and innovative gameplay mechanics. The developers, Mirage, promised a fighting game like no other, with artificial intelligence (AI) that would learn and adapt to players’ moves. What we got was so much less…. with an unheard budget of over 1 million dollars this… [Rest of the story below] [https://retro-replay.com/remembering-the-hype-and-biggest-flop-in-gaming-rise-of-the-robots-disaster-of-1994/](https://retro-replay.com/remembering-the-hype-and-biggest-flop-in-gaming-rise-of-the-robots-disaster-of-1994/)
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That game was hyped? I must have missed it as a kid. I did rent it and own a copy as an adult because it sits next to shaq fu lol.
Oh man I was sucked into the hype at that time. Begged my parents for this on the snes and I was so freaking let down.