Electro Man

"Electroman" redirects here. For the album by Benny Benassi, see Electroman (album).
Electro Man
Developer(s)X LanD Computer Games
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)
  • Maciej Miąsik
  • Janusz Pelc
Composer(s)Daniel Kleczyński
Platform(s)MS-DOS
Release
  • POL: February 21, 1992
  • NA: 1993
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player

Electro Man, originally distributed in Poland under the title Electro Body, is an MS-DOS platform game developed by the Polish company X LanD Computer Games. It was originally released in Poland by xLand in 1992,[1] and later published by Epic MegaGames in the United States in 1993; apart from the changed title, the Electro Man release contains some changes, such as upgraded graphics. Though initially offered under a shareware license, the game was released as freeware by the developer on June 25, 2006,[2] under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.[3][2] The player controls a cyborg named "Jacek", who must get through all the areas of a space base while destroying enemies.

Electro Body was successful in Poland. It is considered to be the first truly "professional" Polish computer game released on the PC platform[4] and has been described as a "cult" game.[5]

In 2014, a limited collector's edition of the game was released for its 22nd anniversary by IQ Publishing; this edition came with a soundtrack and a numbered certificate.[6][7]

  1. ^ P. Konrad Budziszewski (2015). "Poland". In Mark J. P. Wolf (ed.). Video Games Around the World. The MIT Press. p. 410. ISBN 978-0-262-52716-3.
  2. ^ a b Maciej Miąsik (June 25, 2006). "Moje gry dla każdego". Miasik.net (in Polish). Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  3. ^ Classic DOS Games - Electro Man PC page
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference bajty was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Jerzy Łabuda (June 26, 2012). "Gry to coś więcej niż biznes". Forbes.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2015-11-25. Retrieved 2015-08-05.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference gamezilla2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Paweł Kamiński (October 24, 2014). "Chcecie postawić Electro Body na półce? Jest okazja". Polygamia.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-22.