Jeff Minter, the legendary, iconoclastic arcade game designer, is back with another Atari remake. Once again, the author of the classic Tempest 2000 and its sequels has dug deep into Ataris back catalog and unearthed a truly deep cut to apply his intense, psychedelic spin to. Last time, it was the notoriously difficult, unreleased curio Akka Arrh; this time its I, Robot, a historic but failed game from one of Ataris great minds.I, Robot is a 1984 arcade game designed by Dave Theurer, creator of Missile Command and the original Tempest. Theurer loved to push the technological boundaries of early gaming and I, Robot holds the distinction of being the first commercial video game rendered with real-time, flat-shaded (as opposed to wireframe) 3D polygon graphics eight years before Segas Virtua Racing and a decade before PlayStation made this kind of 3D gaming a mass-market proposition.But I, Robot was a flop, and less than 1,000 cabinets of the game were produced. Its unusual design has the player controlling a robot, hopping around mazes and flipping the color of tiles while shooting at enemies and avoiding the gaze of Big Brothers giant eye.Going by the trailer, Minters take on I, Robot is typically distinctive, upping the pace, taking liberties with the design, and incorporating elements of his own games like Gridrunner and the Tempest remakes, as well as his trademark procedural techno music and bleary psychedelic visuals. Naturally, the robot hero has been given the head of an ox, too. (Minter, whose company is called Llamasoft, has a long-standing obsession with animals of the ungulate family.)In between levels, players will dip into a trippy tube shooter for some Tempest-style action, while the release also includes what Minter is calling the Ungame, a visualizer that allows the player to play around with the games sights and sounds without worrying about enemies. (The original I, Robot also included a chill secondary mode, a drawing tool called Doodle City.)Minters I, Robot will be released in spring 2025 on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X, and Ataris own VCS system. According to the trailer, therell be a PlayStation VR2 version, too.