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Power armor

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Player character wears or can wear a power armor or powered exoskeleton short of piloted robots.

205
games
44
platforms

Name variations: exoskeleton

Related:
* Body armor
This is for armor, not piloted robots such as mechas, despite the fact that powered exoskeleton does cover them. Easy to distinguish if you consider mechas have cockpits (where the pilot usually sits) and power armor require the user to move with the armor (because of the size; excludes control mechanisms tied to mimicking user movements). Anything significantly larger than their users are bound to be mechas and anything close to human size is bound to be power armor.

The idea for power armor seems to originate from Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (1959) novel.

Possibly most notable games for popularizing power armor were Metroid (1986), Turrican (1990), Half-Life (1998) and Halo (2001). Other potential contenders are MDK2 (2000) and Tribes 2 (2001).

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Parent groups

Exoskeleton, Non-science fiction, Personal protection, SciFi elements

Games by year

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1959 - Starship Troopers (novel)

The first Power armor video game was released in 1984.

Nintendo, Interplay, Rainbow Arts and Valve published most of these games.

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Platforms

Windows59
Linux23
X36015
PS310
Mac OS X9
MS-DOS8
PS26
Xbox5
SNES4
Amiga4
C644
Amstrad CPC3
NES3
GB3
GameCube3
Mega Drive3
GBA3
Mac OS Classic3
ZX Spectrum3
Wii3
Atari ST3
Arcade2
3DS2
PS42
PS2
Memotech MTX2
Archimedes1
iOS1
BeOS1
NEC PC98011

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