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In Ocean's Short Circuit gaming incarnation of the comic sci-fi movie we, naturally, play as Johnny 5, a NOVA laboratories designed robot who gains sentience when struck by lightning. As in the movie, rather than serve as a US army puppet following orders in relation to Cold War operations, Johnny 5 breaks loose from his military prison to live an independent life. With free will now hard-wired into his circuitry, he romances a human lady, connects with wildlife (literally by jumping on it in one case), speed-reads the universe's entire library, and learns to comprehend human emotions.

In the second half of the 2D scrolling, action-puzzler, Johnny must navigate through rural areas of the outside world beyond the NOVA labs. Shooting pursuing robots and military personnel, his mission is simply to escape without crushing the park wildlife. Now in possession of human empathy, Johnny becomes increasingly depressed with each collateral damage kill, until involuntary shutdown overcomes his joie de vivre.