1980s science fiction cyberpunk belonged to robots in the form of two mainstream classics of the genre, James Cameron’s 1984 smash hit The Terminator and Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 darkly comic masterwork Robocop. Though predated somewhat by the androids in Ridley Scott’s back to back science fiction epics Alien and Blade Runner and only a few years earlier by Star Wars, this was the first time in decades that metallic humanoids were the central focus of the film. Though separated by being antagonist and protagonist, both were bleak dystopian futurist thrillers with a keen eye for action, satire, and took place amid the decaying underbelly of industrial factories, skyscrapers and concerned machines impervious to damage…mostly anyway. Then in 1992, Frank Miller made the unspoken war between these two cybernetic icons official with the release of the graphic novel, followed by the videogame versions released in 1993, among the bloodiest ever made for the console system at that time by the way.
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