Gyromite was a video game released in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It used the NES accessory R.O.B. (Robotic Operating Buddy) for play. The point of the game Gyromite is to use either Professor Hector (Player 1), or Professor Vector (Player 2), to defuse all the pieces of dynamite in their laboratory.

There are 40 phases in the game Gyromite, and the latter stages are very challenging. This is mainly because R.O.B. is very slow in moving his spinning gyros, which are used to move red and blue pillars up and down in the game's levels, to allow the player to continue through the level. To bring down the frustration factor of the game though, the player can use the A and B buttons on controller 2 to move these pillars up and down as well, without using the R.O.B. at all.

Gyromite was 1 of 2 games in Nintendo's Robot Series, the other game being Stack Up . Gyromite never sold well, mainly because the R.O.B. never did well either, and not many people know that Gyromite can be played without the use of R.O.B. There is also a Game B is Gyromite, where the professor is sleepwalking, and you have to move the pillars out of the way of where the professor is walking to continue.

The enemies in Gyromite are creatures called Smicks, which will not harm you if you give them a turnip to eat, which can be randomly found throughout the levels of Gyromite. It is also interesting that the opening scene of the game shows the title "Robot Gyro," which was what the game was called on the Japanese Famicom version. Nintendo didn't bother to change the opening title to the appropriate "Gyromite."