Psychedelic spin on a coin-op classic

IF you know your arcade history, I, Robot is a game you may have heard of but probably never played.

- By PAUL DRURY

Created by Dave Theurer, the genius behind Atari's Missile Command and Tempest, it pioneered the use of polygons to create strange, 3D environments, where your little 'unhappy interface robot' battled against the all-seeing eye of Big Brother.

It was released in 1984. Very zeitgeist.

The game was a commercial failure, possibly due to its complexity compared with other coin-ops of the day, so its resurrection over 40 years later might seem a surprise.