1st August 1985
Ultimate fun
Your task is to travel from planet to planet, collecting the parts to build a rocket and fuelling it. Your only method of propulsion is the Jet Pac strapped to your back. Using Caps-Lock, CTRL and Shift to thrust, you can fly around, collecting the rocket's stages, the fuel and bonus objects. Having completed your task, the rocket takes off and lands elsewhere, opening up the next scenario.
Each level brings different nasties, who are determined to stop you. On the first screen they are relatively harmless, but later they get vicious, with balloons, aircraft, amoebatrons and other such characters after your blood.
Jet-Pac has a good graphics display, most movement is very smooth, and the Defender-type laser rifle is quite convincing. Colour has been used to good effect, and the puffs of smoke that arise if anything is killed are also well done.
Sound is varied and effective, explosions abound and the take-off and landing sequences are particularly successful.
There are options for one and two players and joysticks may be used. Sound may be disabled, and there is a top-ten high score table as well.
Jet-Pac is fun to play, if not a little rapid at times.
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