C&VG


Bombjack
By Elite
Commodore 16

 
Published in Computer & Video Games #59

Bombjack

Bombjack, that little guy who has the strange hobby of collecting bombs, has decided to show up on the C16.

The basic idea of Bombjack is, as I said, to collect bombs all over the world. You, as Bombjack, can fly, jump, and walk your way through different layouts of bombs, collecting lots of points.

Bombjack features different graphic backdrops, well at least on all the other versions it does. The C16 version really is quite poor in comparison, only having one backdrop.

The sound is also not up to the original versions. Unfortunately all you get is a muffled fog horn at the start and the beeps and bips, that's it. As to your actual character, well! Your man has some very bad attribute problems, those usually associated with the first batch of Spectrum games.

At its very best, Bombjack on the C16 is a terrible game. It's sad to see this sort of rubbish being churned out on the C16 for £7.95 when you get get something like Trizons for £1.99!