Electro Man is a VGA sidescrolling DOS

DOS

DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...

 computer game developed by xLand Games and published by Epic Megagames in . It was initially released in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 (and later Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

) without the involvement of Epic as "Electro Body" complete with some changed graphics and CGA

Color Graphics Adapter

The Color Graphics Adapter , originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter, introduced in 1981, was IBM's first color graphics card, and the first color computer display standard for the IBM PC....

, EGA

Enhanced Graphics Adapter

The Enhanced Graphics Adapter is the IBM PC computer display standard specification which is between CGA and VGA in terms of color and space resolution. Introduced in October 1984 by IBM shortly after its new PC/AT, EGA produces a display of 16 simultaneous colors from a palette of 64 at a...

 and composite monitor display modes. Though initially offered under a shareware

Shareware

The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...

 license, the game was released as freeware

Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...

 on June 25, 2006.
The player controls "Jacek" the electro man (who is very similar, design wise, to RoboCop

RoboCop

RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction-action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCop centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg known as "RoboCop"...

) as he travels through eight levels, shooting enemies, using teleporters and upgrading his main weapon.

Reception

The game was later released as part of the Epic Puzzle Pack (with Robbo

The Adventures of Robbo

The Adventures of Robbo is a puzzle video game developed by xLand Games and published in 1994 by Epic MegaGames. The game was re-released under Creative Commons in 2006.-Gameplay:...

and Heartlight

Heartlight (game)

Heartlight is a puzzle game originally developed by Janusz Pelc for 8-bit Atari. In 1994, an MS-DOS port was published by Epic Megagames along with two other games by Janusz Pelc in the Epic Puzzle Pack. The shareware version contained 20, the full version 70 levels...

) which was reviewed in 1994 in Dragon

Dragon (magazine)

Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...

#206 by Sandy Petersen

Sandy Petersen

Carl Sanford Joslyn Petersen is a game designer.Petersen was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended University of California, Berkeley, majoring in zoology....

in the "Eye of the Monitor" column. Petersen gave the compilation 3 out of 5 stars.