Earthbound – Octobots
You fight a lot of robots in Earthbound. The seminal 1995 SNES role-playing game about some kids traveling back in time to fight the root of evil in the cosmos also has you smash lots of mechanical baddies.
The game’s very first boss is a sentient tank called Frankystein Mark II. Then there’s the Clumsy Robot boss battle which will absolutely destroy you unless you pummel ol’ Clumsy with bottle rockets. And who could forget the Nuclear Reactor Robot, which blows up when you kill it, wreaking havoc on your party as you try to survive from one random encounter to the next. If Earthbound taught me one thing, it’s that the best thing to do when you see a robot is just run away. –Ethan Gach
