Bomb Jack - Not a fan

[Darran@Retro Gamer]

Don't like Bomb Jack? Tell us why here.

[r0jaws]

What is there not to like??! Get an MSX2, get a copy of the remake, and feel good about playing it all over again.
Best played with friends in a vicious, competitive spirit.

[Scapegoat]

This is purely subjective, but I hate the graphics, play mechanics, sound, concept, pretty much everything about the game leaves me dead cold.

[merman]

I would not say it was terrible, but it is clearly meant to be a money-grabber. The C64 conversion was pretty poor as well, and that really put me off the arcade game for a long while.

[clarance]

Never liked it, never really understood what's going on. It's not the most intuitive of games.

And the Commodore 16 version took several days to load. And it was crap.

[Sputryk]

You're all sacriligious muppets! Give the Spectrum version a chance and you'll likely have a (slightly) more favourable view.

[RMLF]

Never got the Bombjack love, it was always bitty, annoying and well just pants.

Played a number of versions from Atari ST through to the Arcade, but each time id get bored turn it off and do something infinitely more interesting instead

[Hitman_HalStep]

tried quite a few games on MAME and i'm really not feeling it,not my sort of game i tend to play games to try and complete them not for high scores.completely wasted on me.

[PaulEMoz]

You can't shoot things.



In all seriousness, it's an odd little coin-op that I usually only played while I was waiting for the game I really wanted to play to become available. It was a decent little time-killer in that sense, but the gameplay mechanics never really grabbed me.

[SirClive]

Can we ban everyone who posts in this thread?

censored no, I would get a ban too.

[Sixteen Plus]

Never liked it, never really understood what's going on. It's not the most intuitive of games.

And the Commodore 16 version took several days to load. And it was crap.

C16's Bombjack wasn't that bad, graphics were OK if a bit blocky with not the best collision-detection, and it did badly miss the power pellets if I recall correctly. I still found it playable enough. The sequel Bomjack II wasn't bad either if a little strange.

It could have been like C16's Ghosts'n'Goblins. Now that was horrendous

[clarance]

Never liked it, never really understood what's going on. It's not the most intuitive of games.

And the Commodore 16 version took several days to load. And it was crap.

C16's Bombjack wasn't that bad, graphics were OK if a bit blocky with not the best collision-detection, and it did badly miss the power pellets if I recall correctly. I still found it playable enough. The sequel Bomjack II wasn't bad either if a little strange.

It could have been like C16's Ghosts'n'Goblins. Now that was horrendous

Well I just don't get Bomb Jack I suppose - for that matter, most of Elite's games on the C16 were pretty disappointing - can't think of a good one right now.

[Sixteen Plus]

Well I just don't get Bomb Jack I suppose - for that matter, most of Elite's games on the C16 were pretty disappointing - can't think of a good one right now.

Ikari Warriors.

Not perfect, naturally it wouldn't be. But it has the 2-player mode and tanks. Good game.

[tachi]

I hated it too.
Just such a boring, uninteresting game. A friend of mine was a fan and I had to sit and watch him play it on the Amiga and sitting watching it was worse than a toothache, so dull.

[gman72]

I Just got fed up of seeing Tachi's name.