Net Yaroze Month: Arena

In Net Yaroze Month, we are playing every Net Yaroze game featured on the UK Official Playstation Magazine, and ranking them all in the order we liked them. You may have other opinions as to the ranking, which is awesome.

To learn more about Net Yaroze, read our introductory article here.

Tom Madams’ Arena looks impressive. Luckily it also plays well too.

You are a two-legged robot thing (possibly inspired by the AT-ST’s from Star Wars), and you have to stomp around four arenas killing all the bad robots. You can collect power ups, which extend your energy, as well as bombs which blast everything on screen.

It’s good fun, and if I had one complaint it would be that you move a bit slow. But it’s a big robot, and makes a nice stomping noise, so I can forgive it of that.

Legacy​

Tom went to help make work at SCEE and Lucasarts, and is now a Senior Software Engineer at Google.

Game: Arena
By: Tom Madams
Genre: Shooter
Available on Euro Demos: 108

Net Yaroze Month rankings:​

Arena blasts into No. 17

1. Time Slip
2. Blitter Boy
3. Rocks n Gems
4. Total Soccer Yaroze
5. Terra Incognita
6. Super Bub Contest
7. Robot Ron
8. Decaying Orbit
9. Psychon
10. INVS
11. Snowball Fight
12. Haunted Maze
13. Roller
14. Pushy IIB
15. Gravitation
16. Down
17. [B]Arena[/B]
18. Squeak
19. Adventure Game
20. Katapila
21. Sam the Boulderman
22. Pssst!
23. Pandora’s Box
24. Game Involving Triangles
25. Yarozians
26. Tanx
27. PingPing
28. Opera of Destruction
29. Video Poker Simulator
30. Shroud
31. Between the Eyes
32. Bouncer 2
33. Yaroze Rally
34. Sphere
35. Blockz
36. Technical Demo
37. Surf Game

Still to play:​

• A Dog Tale
• Mah Jongg
• Samsaric Asymptotes
• Hover Car Racing
• Clone