# Robot Unicorn Attack **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 1, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897 "2010-03-01T18:48:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bayesian\_Empirimancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Bayesian\_Empirimancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayesian_Empirimancer)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/1 "2010-03-01T18:48:15Z")
Tell me how addicting this game is: > **[Adult Swim Games](https://www.adultswim.com/games)** > > Adult Swim Games is a publisher of video games like Headlander, Robot Unicorn Attack, Duck Game, Death's Gambit and Pocket Mortys for PC (Steam), console (Playstation 4 & Xbox One), and mobile (iOS & Android) platforms. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/2 "2010-03-01T18:54:15Z")
I watched the boyfriend play it for _hours_ last week. He never got very far. (I always wanted to see if there was another level and a different song.) ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/3 "2010-03-01T22:01:48Z")
Moving from MPSIMS to Game Room. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/4 "2010-03-01T22:05:48Z")
I played that game one night. For hours. Haven’t gone back, but very very addictive especially for a game with 2 control buttons. ---
**Author:** ![Amazingrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Amazingrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazingrace)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/5 "2010-03-01T22:08:25Z")
Thanks to an ad for that game (I didn’t even play it!), I had that song stuck in my head while I was taking the bar exam. _When it’s cold, outside…_ I hadn’t heard it for years. I’m sure that Erasure is storming back up the charts. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/6 "2010-03-02T02:12:46Z")
That’s a _real song_? Not a hilarious Robot Unicorn Attack song? ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/7 "2010-03-02T14:18:25Z")
I’ll… tell… you… in… (highest so far 32,756) ---
**Author:** ![Amazingrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Amazingrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazingrace)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/8 "2010-03-02T14:24:50Z")
It is indeed a real song. If you youtube the video for _Always_ by Erasure, prepare yourself for a low-budget, East meets West, sci-fi fantasy of ridiculousness. ETA: Almost all of the comments on the youtube page are about Robot Unicorn Attack ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/9 "2010-03-02T14:27:12Z")
New high of 48,856!! Persistence is futile! You will fail! You will die a fiery death! ---
**Author:** ![Bayesian\_Empirimancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Bayesian\_Empirimancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayesian_Empirimancer)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/10 "2010-03-02T16:04:11Z")
Bah! Humbug! I can’t get above 11,000. Walls come out of nowhere. Although, have you noticed that you can dash into a wall and not die? Other thing I’ve noticed is that you can do a double jump, then dash and immediately jump again, in mid-air? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/11 "2010-03-02T16:24:34Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > I watched the boyfriend play it for _hours_ last week. He never got very far. (I always wanted to see if there was another level and a different song.) I don’t think there’s ever a different song… the one eventually fades out for a few seconds then starts again. If you keep going far enough, you are eventually accompanied by glowy dolphins jumping in and out of the screen - which makes me wonder if the game was programmed by the same guy who did Dolphin Olympics. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/12 "2010-03-02T16:34:48Z")
We did see the dolphins, which were so funny he immediately ran into one of those damned stars. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/13 "2010-03-02T17:32:26Z")
Does \*\*Robot Arm \*\*know about this? ---
**Author:** ![Translucent\_Daydream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/translucent_daydream/32/16170_2.png) [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/14 "2010-03-02T22:37:21Z")
“quite possibly the gayest game ever” This is how they advertized it on Adult Swim. So naturally, I had to see for myself what “the gayest game ever” was. Now every office you go into at the college I work at is blaring Erasure. I wish it was Depeche Mode instead. ---
**Author:** ![Bayesian\_Empirimancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Bayesian\_Empirimancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayesian_Empirimancer)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/15 "2010-03-02T22:45:09Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > We did see the dolphins, which were so funny he immediately ran into one of those damned stars. There’s DOLPHINS?! I have to play this more… There goes my week. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/16 "2010-03-02T23:09:35Z")
Oh, yeah. It’s like Lisa Frank threw up. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/17 "2010-03-03T00:28:13Z")
Just a note after further experimentation - I’m now pretty sure there’s nothing past the dolphins in terms of stuff to unlock - once I got to about 15,000 on one life, I got 2 dolphins at once; I’m sure if someone manages to get to 30,000 somehow they’d have 4 or 5 of the things. ---
**Author:** ![Bayesian\_Empirimancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Bayesian\_Empirimancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayesian_Empirimancer)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/18 "2010-03-03T02:14:03Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Just a note after further experimentation - I’m now pretty sure there’s nothing past the dolphins in terms of stuff to unlock - once I got to about 15,000 on one life, I got 2 dolphins at once; I’m sure if someone manages to get to 30,000 somehow they’d have 4 or 5 of the things. I had an unhealthy tendency of running into walls. Stop rubbing it in. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/20 "2011-01-07T15:51:10Z")
Heh, nice bot post. Anyway, seeing this thread inspired me to play again, whereupon I found this: [Heavy Metal Version](http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-heavy-metal-twitchy-online-game.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-unicorn-attack/530897/21 "2011-01-07T16:05:10Z")
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