Is Electrocop on Steam?

No. Electrocop is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

What platforms is Electrocop on?

Electrocop is available on Atari Lynx, PC (Microsoft Windows).

When did Electrocop release?

Electrocop was first released on September 1, 1989.

Electrocop

Sep 1, 1989ShooterAtari LynxPC (Microsoft Windows)

Electrocop — frequently asked questions

Is Electrocop on Steam?: No. Electrocop is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Electrocop on?: Electrocop is available on Atari Lynx, PC (Microsoft Windows).
When did Electrocop release?: Electrocop was first released on September 1, 1989.

About Electrocop

Electrocop is a third-person shooter game in which players starts off with a countdown clock of one hour to complete the task of rescuing the president's daughter. You have to make your way through different levels coming up against different foes. These foes are robots that go by, Walker, Python, Mine, Wall Cannon, Virus and Stringray. To get between each level you have to hack through different doors through a computer interface. While in this interface there are directories of Information where you can learn more about the robots, Programs that disable robots and help hack through codes. Games where you can pass the time by playing games of Meteors, Letter Puzzle and Out Break. Along with Med-pack which heals you and weapon repair to help repair your damaged weapons. There are also different weapons to choose from to help you out during the course of the game. Atari was planning to release a different Electrocop game for the Atari 7800 console. The development was handled by outside contractors. While the game is said to have been finished, a prototype has yet to be found (as of September 2014). However, artwork that Amy Hennig did for the game has appeared on the internet.

Summary via IGDB.

Electrocop on Wikipedia

Electrocop is a 1989 action video game developed by Epyx and published by Atari Corporation in North America and Europe for the Atari Lynx. It was released in Japan on November 25 of the same year, where it was distributed by Mumin Corporation. One of the first games written for the platform, it was among the launch titles that were released along with the system in North America.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Platforms: Atari Lynx, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Developer: Epyx
Publisher: Mumin Corporation
Game modes: Single player
Themes: Action, Science fiction

Details via IGDB.

Every version compared

Prices, contemporary reception and the studio credited for each release

Platform	Year	Loose	Complete	Sealed
Atari Lynx	1989	$15	$26	$49

Also released on: PC (Microsoft Windows). We haven’t priced or authenticated that version yet.

Collector value & authenticity

Atari Lynx · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-08-07

Loose

$15

Complete

$26

Sealed

$49

Region: NA+EU+JP
Released: 1989
Authenticity: Low

On Evercade + PC (The Lynx Collection / Epyx Collection: Handheld) — the cartridge is now a collectibleLow counterfeit risk

Atari Lynx prices, all games & how to spot a fake

The launch title that most resembles a tech demo, and the one that dates worst — buy it for the history.

Epyx's 1989 isometric action game was built to show off the hardware's scaling and rotation, and it does. What it does less well is hold up as something to play for an hour; the pacing belongs firmly to 1989.

It was one of the 17 titles distributed in Japan by Mumin Corporation, and it is on both Evercade and PC now — which means the cartridge is a collecting decision rather than an access one.

What the press said at the time

“While most of the new Lynx titles are pretty hot, one shouldn't overlook some of the earlier, classic Lynx games... A case in point is Electrocop, a 3D maze adventure that should be in every Lynx collection.”
— Atari Explorer, November/December 1992

Cartridge & preservation record

Cartridge ROM capacity 1 megabit (128 KB), measured from the preserved cartridge image.

Catalogue part number PA2021

Cartridge data from the No-Intro preservation database (metadata only — names, sizes and checksums, no game data).

Worth knowing

Twelve floors, and teleport exits that lie to you. Atari Explorer's 1992 retrospective explains the structure: the Steel Complex has twelve floors linked by teleportation exits, and "the exits don't always take you where you expect. You might, for example, go through an exit in level 2 and wind up in level 7. The farther you get into this electronic labyrinth, the crazier the exits become." Computers dotted through the building offer services if you walk up and press A or B.
It was a $19.99 budget title by late 1992. Atari Explorer reviewed it alongside two new releases at $39.99 each and listed Electrocop at $19.99 — a launch cartridge re-priced to budget within three years, and a concrete marker of how the Lynx software market aged.
It streams graphics off the cartridge as it plays. A Lynx cartridge is not addressable memory — Atari Explorer's January/February 1991 hardware article describes it as behaving "like a disk on which up to 256 files of arbitrary size can reside", loaded into RAM by DMA. Electrocop is the example the article names: it "stores character data on the card, reading it in dynamically, as required", letting a 1989 launch title carry far more character art than the Lynx's 64K of RAM could hold.

Before you buy

Cheap, common, and available in all three shell styles as an early title. Low counterfeit risk; the only premium worth paying is for a genuine flat first-run cart with matching big-box packaging.