The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth

The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth
Developer	Activision
Publisher	Activision
Platform	Commodore 64
Release date	1986

The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth is a computer game for the Commodore 64 written by David Crane with music by Russell Lieblich, released in 1986 by Activision.

The intro for this game features probably the most amount of speech of any Commodore 64 game. The speech tells the history of the Transformers, with most of the dialog taken from the narration at the beginning of the first episode of the TV series.

In the game, the Autobot team must defend a number of sites from Decepticon attack. These sites are presented on an overworld map, and the player can dispatch Autobots to these sites via connecting roads. In an attack, gameplay consists of a first-person fixed-perspective shooting game, where the player must prevent an endless army of multi-colored Seekers from stealing various materials.

Locations

Among the places that the Decepticons attack are an oil platform, a shuttle base, the governor's mansion, JTEK Inc., a tanker dock, a nuclear plant, the Andreas Zoo, Dinosaur Park, and a pipeline junction.

Characters

Autobots

Well, it had to have been better than ET.

• Cliffjumper
• Hound
• Pipes
• Kup
• Bumblebee
• Blurr
• Hotrod [sic]
• Rodimus Prime

Notes

• In this micro-continuity, Hot Rod and Rodimus Prime are separate characters, since they both appear in the game together at the same time.

External Links

• The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth page on Lemon 64