Revived publisher Atari announces I. Robot is the latest game from its back-catalog it plans to re-imagine, saying a new version is coming to PC and consoles this spring. The original was a flop when it hit arcades back in 1984, despite the technical innovation of what Wikipedia calls "the first commercially produced arcade video game rendered entirely with real-time, flat-shaded, 3D polygon graphics." It turned out to be one of the last games produced by the original Atari before it was first parted-out and sold off. And like the movie of the same name, it has very little to do with the collection of classic Isaac Asimov short stories that originated the title. The new version will be the brainchild of Llamasoft founder Jeff Minter, and while there don't appear to be an ruminant animals in the Official Announcement Trailer, it certainly displays a lot of Jeff's signature madcap style. Here's more:

BREAK FREE from your creator. The objective of I, Robot is simple: take control of the ox-headed robot and outwit the all-seeing eye. But, remember, AVOID THE EYE at all costs, or else it’s GAME OVER, MAN.

You’ll navigate across a 3D kaleidoscopic visualizer in each level by flipping tiles to open up pathways to escape. Make sure you don’t jump while the eye’s watching, or you’ll be ZAPPED away in a flash. If you make it across the tiles, you’ll have to race down a tube and BLAST away any enemy shapes that move into your path and try to stop you. Don’t get too comfortable, chump. Minter periodically mixes things up with arena levels that will ignite your synapses with onslaughts of lethal enemies.