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The setting of this game is somewhat depressing. Poor Jack is doomed to work in a large space garage collecting fuel pods for the customers.

The game is great fun though, as you control Jack using his rocket-powered backpack to manouevre him from platform to platform. There are problems in the form of the 'space googlies' who keep trying to stop him. Another difficulty is his oxygen supply which will only last one minute per trip. These make the game difficult, but more exciting.

This game was originally released on the BBC machine and this is a conversion with some radical changes. Firstly, the 16 colours of the BBC version have been reduced to four in this. This makes the graphics less interesting but does make the game faster, so fast that it is even more of a challenge than the original.

Secondly, some of the graphic characters are different, but just as interesting. The levels, with five different screens, are excellent and progress from the difficult to the utterly impossible.

A good game which has lost colour but not excitement.

D.C.