R.O.B. (
Robotic
Operating
Buddy) was an accessory for the
Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released in July 1985 in
Japan as the
Famicom Robot and later that year as R.O.B. in
North America. It had a short lifespan, with support for only two games which comprised the "Robot Series";
Gyromite and
Stack-Up. R.O.B. was released with the intention of portraying the Nintendo Entertainment System as something novel in order to alleviate retail fears following the
video game crash of 1983.
[1] [2] R.O.B. was available in the
Deluxe Set, a configuration for the console that included, among other things, R.O.B. and
Gyromite.
Stack-Up was purchased separately and included its own physical game pieces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.O.B.
ROB is the 80's version of Wall-E. They look pretty damn similar.