

The range of enemies you encounter during beats and stages differ significantly from each other requiring varying strategies to be successful against them and encouraging diverse playstyles when going through multiples times (which also grants higher rewards). Movement is controlled using either 8 buttons (the 6 action buttons plus Start/Pause) or a D-pad on an analog controller and lets you perform maneuvers like running or aiming up/down with great ease allowing yourself to quickly adapt to enemy waves or simply flee hazardous situations if you need too. The player then travels through various backgrounds consisting mostly of urban environments while battling foes of all kinds: from walking robots and aliens creatures inhabiting grimy city streets all the way up to huge mecha-bosses guarding long forgotten fortresses in zany sci-fi settings. The objective is to fight your way through six stages of hordes of enemies across different locations in order to reach the Mother Brain base and deactivate it.Īs with all games released at the time, Probotector starts out quite easily to introduce players to what they can expect from the rest of the game.Īlmost immediately after starting, a map screen is presented providing some insight into how many levels there are and where they are located.

In this game, you control a mechanical soldier called Probotector, sent out to halt an alien invasion on Earth. Probotector is a 2D-platformer released for the Sega Genesis Mega Drive in 1992.ĭeveloped by Konami, it was the only game in their "Probotector" series, and one of the first to be marketed as such.
