"Afterdeath!" the Transformers#24 (January 1987) with credits to Bob Budiansky (script), Don Perlin (pencils), Ian Aiken/Brian Garvey (inks), Nel Yomtov (colors), Janice Chiang (letters), and Don Daley (editor)
Woah, this was a big issue.
We met Ethan Zachary. He's a computer programmer working a new fancy device. Megatron wants said device.
So he takes the Combaticons with him to the lab to steal the device. Optimus and the Protectobots arrive to stop them, but the resulting fight threatens to destroy the device, so Ethan has a compromise: Optimus and Megatron duke it out in a video game!
Inside the game, each side must be true to their principals. The Autobots must protect the NPCs while the Decepticons try to destroy everyone. The Combaticons get taken out, thus leaving Megatron to take on Optimus and the combined Defensor. Defensor opts to blow up the platform he and Megatron share, thus giving Optimus the win!
Ah, but Megatron cheats! Yup, he uses basically a cheat code and gives himself another life. He also manages to appear right behind Optimus and shoots him square in the back!
But Optimus manages to overcome the odds and win! But some NPCs are destroyed, this Optimus has no other option other than to kill himself and let Megatron leave with the device.
Yeah, Optimus was kind of a dumbass. What's the quote "Evil always wins because good is dumb"?
Unseen by the mourning Autobots, Ethan manages to save a copy of Prime's brainwaves on a floppy disk.
Yeah, this was just dumb. I get staying true to your principals but when you'd do more damage to your own side than the enemy maybe you should rethink them?
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