RoboCop for Game Boy Color is a side-scrolling action game set in a futuristic Delta City. Players control RoboCop, a cyborg law enforcement officer tasked with combating rampant crime amid a gang war and the rise of a powerful supercomputer known as The Mind. The game involves fighting enemies, solving crimes, and ultimately confronting the gang leader Nexx to restore order to the city.
OCP Technologies has developed an organic and mechanical hybrid supercomputer which they've named `The Mind`. Unknown to the scientists however, The Mind has secretly been infiltrating computer networks around the world. When the project is finally deemed complete, OCP puts The Mind in control of the security systems of Delta City. At the same time, a gang war erupts in the city and several laboratories are broken into and looted. The police recieve a lead on a gang leader named `Nexx` who may be involved and assign RoboCop, a cyborg law enforcement officer, to bring him in.