History VideoGame / RobotUnicornAttack

''Robot Unicorn Attack'' is a free UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash game from Creator/AdultSwim. You're a [[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows rainbow-adorned]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robot unicorn]] who runs across a pink, sparkly, brightly colored world, collecting fairies, jumping onto platforms, and dashing about while a happy, upbeat AwardBaitSong plays in the background. There are only two buttons: Z to jump and X to dash. Did we mention that they had a developer devoted entirely to "sparkles and unicorn tears"?

* UnwinnableByMistake: Using embers can let you resume a failed wish, but sometimes the game will reposition you to a place where you'll end up crashing into the environment again.

* VideoGameSettings: ''Evolution'' has different environments depending on the form taken.
** GreenHillZone: The Unicorn form's environment could be considered this considering that you start out in it, and it's a grassy area, except it's entirely purple.
** TheLostWoods: The Panda travels through a bamboo forest.
** SlippySlideyIceWorld[=/=]DeathMountain: The wolf form travels on a snowy mountain.
** DarkestAfrica: The Sabretooth Tiger form (Facebook version) or Rhino form ([adult swim] version) travels through an African Savannah.
** JungleJapes: The Gorilla form travels through a jungle.
** LevelInTheClouds: The Dragon form travels through a night sky with an aurora with cloud platforms.

** SpaceZone[=/=]BubblyClouds: The Dragon form travels through a night sky with an aurora with cloud platforms.

* DifficultButAwesome: Flying. It replaces your double-jump and allows you to hover indefinitely in the air once you reach top speed. While it has a rather steep learning curve (thanks in no small part to copious amounts of DamnYouMuscleMemory), it can lead to astronomical scores for those who can stay in the air long enough to gain massive multipliers from hoops.

* FrickinLaserBeams: The Giants fire "solar beams" at you that will kill you unless you dash through them.

In April 2013, a true numbered sequel was released for iOS platforms. ''Robot Unicorn Attack 2'' borrows many elements from ''Evolution'', but also includes a rank system that allows you to [[UnlockableContent unlock power ups, daily/community challenges, and unicorn parts]] as you complete certain objectives (such as reaching a certain score or dashing a certain number of stars in a single wish). Said unicorn parts allow you to modify your unicorn both visually and functionally, altering things such as your acceleration rate, speed, dash length, and even gives you the ability to fly. At a certain level it also has you join either [[SugarBowl Team Rainbow]] or [[TheDarkSide Team Inferno]]; each day the teams compete to smash the most Stars, with the winning team being awarded a random amount of Tears, the in-game currency. Finally, it introduces a new stage hazard: Giants, which are basically huge Stars that fire FrickinLaserBeams at you.

* SequelDifficultySpike: Zigzagged. It starts off ''easier'' than the earlier games mainly due to its slower pace, but when you get far enough into the level it gets downright crazy, with tiny platforms and passages you can barely fit through aplenty.

* SequelDifficultyDrop: The Facebook version gives you the option of making the game easier thanks to its enhancements. For example:
** The DifficultyByAcceleration can be turned off with the "leisurely pace" enhancement.
** The DoubleJump can be upgraded to a triple jump.
** The Jump's length can be upgraded by adding [[WingedUnicorn wings]] to the robot unicorn.

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[[http://vevegames.com/robot-unicorn-attack Play it here]]. There are UsefulNotes/{{i|OS Games}}Phone and {{Android|Games}} ports available for wish-chasing on the go. Three expansion packs are also now available, one of which, ''VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttackHeavyMetalEdition'', is... not as harmonious as you know it to be.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Harmony evolves]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Harmony devolves]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Music/{{Erasure}}"Always, I wanna be with you, and make believe with you, and live in harmony, harmony, oh love~!"]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[EarWorm "Always, I wanna be with you, and make believe with you, and live in harmony, harmony, oh love~!"]]]]

->''"[[EarWorm Always, I wanna be with you, and make believe with you, and live in harmony harmony oh love]]''..."

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''Robot Unicorn Attack'' is a free Flash game from Creator/AdultSwim. You're a [[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows rainbow-adorned]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robot unicorn]] who runs across a pink, sparkly, brightly colored world, collecting fairies, jumping onto platforms, and dashing about while a happy, upbeat AwardBaitSong plays in the background. There are only two buttons: Z to jump and X to dash. Did we mention that they had a developer devoted entirely to "sparkles and unicorn tears"?

[[caption-width-right:350: [[EarWorm "Always, I wanna be with you, and make believe with you, and live in harmony, harmony, oh love~!"]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Harmony evolves]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Harmony devolves]]

->''"[[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday Is your masculinity threatened?]] [[RealMenWearPink Then you're not man enough to play.]]"''

Oh, and it may just be the most awesome game ever.

This is one of the few games endorsed fully and wholeheartedly by Encyclopedia Dramatica and Website/FourChan. Repeat: this is liked by the people that will derisively call something "objectively shit" if it even slightly falls short of expectations. They embrace ''Robot Unicorn Attack'' with open arms, even changing the website filling it with [[{{Bara}} Yaranaika]] rainbows to honor it every February 27th.

[[http://vevegames.com/robot-unicorn-attack Play it here]].

There are UsefulNotes/{{i|OS Games}}Phone and {{Android|Games}} ports available for wish-chasing on the go.

Three expansion packs are also now available, and are still awesome even though one of them is... not as harmonious as you know it to be. See the ''VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttackHeavyMetalEdition'' entry for more info on that one.

In December 2012, another version was released: ''[[{{Retraux}} Retro Unicorn Attack]]''. [[http://games.adultswim.com/retro-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html Identical to the original]], but now in [[UsefulNotes/The8bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames 8 glorious bits!]] Was later followed up with [[http://games.adultswim.com/retro-unicorn-attack-challenge-edition-online-game.html Retro Unicorn Attack: Challenge Edition]], which introduces fairy and star-laden {{Bonus Stage}}s to jack your score to previously unseen heights.

Has nothing to do with [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Gundam Unicorn]].

* {{Camp}}: It's not Camp, it's [[color:red:F]][[color:orange:A]][[color:yellow:B]][[color:lime:U]][[color:cyan:L]][[color:blue:O]][[color:purple:U]][[color:fuchsia:S]][[color:silver:!]]
* CaptainErsatz: Arguably, the Robot Unicorn is a cyborg version of Starlite, "the most magnificent horse in the universe", from WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite. Heavens, if it was, that would make the game even ''more'' awesome.

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: The commercial had the line "If you feel your masculinity is threatened, then you're not man enough to play!"

* TeleFrag: If you're using the Portal powerup from Evolution, there's a chance this will happen.

** Another unlockable unicorn called the "Pretty Princess" has thicker hooves and a heart on its flank. It bears a striking resemblance to another set of [[{{Franchise/MyLittlePony}} colored horses.]]

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There are {{i|OS Games}}Phone and {{Android|Games}} ports available for wish-chasing on the go.

* {{Camp}}
** It's not Camp, it's [[color:red:F]][[color:orange:A]][[color:yellow:B]][[color:lime:U]][[color:cyan:L]][[color:blue:O]][[color:purple:U]][[color:fuchsia:S]][[color:silver:!]]

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Open your eyes, I see--your eyes are open."

* FanDisservice: Creator/LordKaT's [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/lk/uww/19646-robot-unicorn-attack playthrough of the game.]]
* {{Friendly Playful Dolphin}}s: A dolphin appears for each 5.000 points you earn. [[spoiler:They don't do anything.]]
* GameMod: [[http://megaswf.com/serve/1144550 Rainbow Pony Dash]], which simply replaces the robot unicorn with Rainbow Dash from WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Many males editing this article.
** The commercial had the line "If you feel your masculinity is threatened, then you're not man enough to play!"
* InTheStyleOf: [[http://nyanicorn.com Nyanicorn]], aka Nyan Cat meets RUA.
* JustOneMoreLevel: This game is ''addictive as hell''. You have been warned.
** Lampshaded by one of the start screens in Retro Unicorn Attack.

* LetsPlay: Yes, it has a Let's Play.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: The song is definitely level one.
* {{Mondegreen}}: As ''Reimagine :VideoGame/{{the game}}:'' put it, "HARM MANY HARM MANY OH LOVE".
* MostGamersAreMale: A lot of people point out how CampGay it supposedly is, regardless of the fact that it doesn't apply to the ''women'' that play this game.

* NotQuiteFlight: By alternating jumps and dashes, you can stay in the air indefinitely. It's not uncommon for stretches of rock to generate in such a way that this is necessary, especially once you gain enough speed.
** {{Nerf}}ed in Retro Unicorn Attack, where you can only dash in the air three times without touching the ground.

* [[ThePowerOfLove The Power Of HARMONY HARMONY OH LOVE]]: Not even Website/FourChan can resist.

* RealMenWearPink: Yep.

* [[SpaceWhale Space Whalicorn]]: Appears in the background from time to time.

* CoolHorse: [[CaptainObvious It's a robot unicorn]].

* FollowTheLeader: This game is arguably a robot unicorn-themed version of ''VideoGame/{{Canabalt}}'', the similarity being [[EndlessRunningGame the inability to stop running]].

* LifeImitatesArt: A 2017 line of MAC makeup palettes in nacred neon metallic rainbow colors was called ''Unicorn''.

* RealSongThemeTune: "Always (2009 Mix)" by Music/{{Erasure}}.

* SuperSpeed: You gain speed as your score goes up. Which leads to more SurpriseDifficulty

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The music in the above commercial is "Always" stripped down to its basic chord progression, presumably because Adult Swim's license for the song doesn't cover TV broadcast.

This is one of the few games endorsed fully and wholeheartedly by Encyclopedia Dramatica and Website/FourChan. Repeat: this is liked by the people that will derisively call something "objectively shit" if it even slightly falls short of expectations. They embrace ''Robot Unicorn Attack'' with open arms, even changing the website for a day, filling it with [[{{Bara}} Yaranaika]] rainbows to honor it.

* SweetDreamsFuel: It's practically hypnotic.

''[[http://www.unblockedgamesroom.com/robot-unicorn-attack Robot Unicorn Attack]]'' is a free Flash game from Creator/AdultSwim. You're a [[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows rainbow-adorned]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robot unicorn]] who runs across a pink, sparkly, brightly colored world, collecting fairies, jumping onto platforms, and dashing about while a happy, upbeat AwardBaitSong plays in the background. There are only two buttons: Z to jump and X to dash. Did we mention that they had a developer devoted entirely to "sparkles and unicorn tears"?

Three expansion packs are also now available, and are still [[SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome awesome]] even though one of them is... not as harmonious as you know it to be. See the ''VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttackHeavyMetalEdition'' entry for more info on that one.

* ScoringPoints: The main point of the game... Well, other than being ''[[SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome awesome]]''.

Oh, and it may just be [[SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome the most awesome game ever]].

Three expansion packs are also now available, and are still [[SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome awesome]] even though one of them is... not as harmonious as you know it to be. See the ''[[DarthWiki/RobotUnicornAttack Robot Unicorn Attack: Heavy Metal Edition]]'' entry for more info on that one.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''[[DarthWiki/RobotUnicornAttack Heavy Metal Edition]]'', which has you trying to escape from Hell.

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