Bomb Jack (1984)
3.37 from 27 ratings
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The player controls Jack, a superhero who can leap and glide. Someone has planted 24 bombs at famous tourist sites (the Sphinx and Great Pyramids, the Acropolis, Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, and two cityscapes resembling Miami Beach and Hollywood, which appear only as screen backgrounds rather than unique game locations). Jack must fly around the screen to collect the bombs. …
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The player controls Jack, a superhero who can leap and glide. Someone has planted 24 bombs at famous tourist sites (the Sphinx and Great Pyramids, the Acropolis, Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, and two cityscapes resembling Miami Beach and Hollywood, which appear only as screen backgrounds rather than unique game locations). Jack must fly around the screen to collect the bombs. Each screen uses a different configuration of platforms upon which Jack may run and jump. Eventually, the levels reoccur a number of times with increasing difficulty.
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- 1984 (Full Release) (Japan) Arcade
- 1996 (Full Release) (Japan) PC-9800 Series
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- Tecmo Classic Arcade (Sep 2005) · XBOX
- Arcade Hits 2 in 1 · C64
- Tecmo Hit Parade · PS2
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Status scoopings Nov 6, 2022
I felt like I could have loved this more--with a great arcade-can-only-do-this-in-84 look with excellent backgrounds, tight controls like always with arcade games, and sounds harkening the Mario era delight--but the jump mechanic was alarmingly rudimentary (you should have so much more control over how high and long you jump and the direction etc) and only 5 unique screens meant …
I felt like I could have loved this more--with a great arcade-can-only-do-this-in-84 look with excellent backgrounds, tight controls like always with arcade games, and sounds harkening the Mario era delight--but the jump mechanic was alarmingly rudimentary (you should have so much more control over how high and long you jump and the direction etc) and only 5 unique screens meant my goal was short... and no desire to push for higher score or other configurations on those 5 screens... And the collision masks, especially of the platforms, were very poor... especially considering it's an arcade game not some microcomputer independent platformer... Disappointing overall, tho a fun enough platformer. Great music tho, that jingle had a little Latin feel to it. Welp, Screen 5 already. Was more fun than I'm making it sound, but still disappointing for an arcade platformer of its time. 
And lol when it's Round 6 that you realize you can control the jumps more than I realized (tho I still find it quite clunky) and there are more than 5 unique screens--just 5 unique backgrounds ha. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood tonight, but even with this good hiscore table music and usual arcade excellence, it just wasn't as excellent as I expect from this era of arcade games. 