11 Facts About Grobda

Grobda is a 1984 multi-directional shooter arcade game developed and published by Namco.

Grobda is a multi-directional shooter similar to the classic Atari 2600 game Combat .

Grobda has its own shield that briefly protects them from enemy fire, indicated by the meter at the bottom of the screen.

Grobda was designed by Masanobu Endo and a small team of developers within Namco.

The Grobda was originally a defenseless enemy in Xevious that attempted to evade the player's air-to-surface bombs.

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Endo believed that the idea of giving Grobda powerful weapons and attacks was a humorous idea, and made for an interesting game concept.

Grobda's envisioned the tempo for the background humming to become faster as the Grobda moved faster around the playfield.

Grobda was published in December 1984, running on the Namco Super Pac-Man arcade system board.

Grobda was ported to the PC-8801 home computer in Japan the same year, developed by Dempa Software.

Grobda has been included in multiple Namco Museum collections such as Namco Museum Vol.

The latter includes a minigame based on Grobda titled Grobda Remix, where players control Pac-Man as he must destroy as many enemies possible under a time limit.