Making money at robot combat it hard to do. building them is expensive and there aren’t all that many places that are willing to hand over sponsor money now that BattelBots isn’t on TV any more. Running the events is even tougher, just finding a place that will let you have robot carnage can be quite daunting. And don’t get me started on the arena… Wow… Anyway, these two bright ex auto engineers might have a solution to all this. They have built a four player robot ‘king-of-the-hill’ into an arcade game. Plunk in your coins and the center combat ring (the ‘dohyo’ for those that are familiar with robot sumo and real sumo) lifts up and the action begins. Whoever pushes the last robot off the platform is the winner. Sounds like a great idea, I saw something like it in a science museum in Yokohama and there was a guy in Tucson making arcade like robot demonstration cases, but none involved combat. These are quite clever, I hope to play one someday soon and I wish the best of luck to the both of them.
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