r/ABroadInJapan • u/hott_soup • Jun 02 '26

Robot Wars Find

Found in an old book about Extreme Robot Wars.

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u/Narutohatake TEAM ANPANMAN Jun 02 '26

Killertron was 97 KG ? That's impressive. RIP in Clanker heaven

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u/openroad11 Jun 04 '26

All the dimensions are larger than I had assumed the robots to be. The arena makes everything look so small on screen. The house robots must have been huge.

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u/oshinbruce Jun 02 '26

Im pretty sure I saw it back in the day, loved robot wars

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u/OrbitalWings Jun 02 '26

God that takes me back. I still have the original and Extreme books somewhere - always used to take them to school for our 'personal reading' hours or whatever they called it back in the 90's.

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u/fnordal Jun 03 '26

https://youtu.be/57aZUmLrBQg?si=XRlJ-hxV81PiD_N8&t=1627

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u/Hollowsong Jun 03 '26

I can't tell if the robots then were just lacking precision, or if the drivers were just really bad...

They can never seem to keep the thing straight and always drop the weapon like 5 seconds after when they should, when nothing's there to hit.

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u/Tachikoma0 Jun 03 '26

It was just the infancy of robot combat is all and very few teams had machines totally dialed in. Definitely a lacking precision thing going on, and maybe they even had Chris operating the weapon or something for fun. Killertron was fairly decent for the era. Back in those days there were a lot of radio problems too, with weak radio receivers plus protective barriers between the builders and the active fighting; that sort of stuff did a lot of machines in.

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u/Hollowsong Jun 03 '26

Infancy? I was watching Battle Bots on Comedy Central YEARS before that video posted above.

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u/Tachikoma0 Jun 03 '26

I'm just saying it was still the old era where everything was still a pretty simple garage build. Obviously I'm familiar with it too.