Bomb Jack by Elite Systems Ltd
Synopsis:
You are Bomb Jack and you must defuse all of the bombs in various cities before they explode and kill the residents, this would be an easy task for Jack on their own but they are being guarded by many strange characters that appear from no-were to attack and stop you from saving mankind.
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Original Instructions
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CONTROLS
Joystick or the following keys
Up - Q
Down - A
Left - N
Right - M
Jump - X
Turbo Jump - Up + Jump
INSTRUCTIONS
Collect the bombs and defeat the various enemies around the screen.
HINTS/CHEATS
Collect 23 fizzling bombs for a massive 50,000 point bonus. Every so often a disk bearing the letter P arrives heralded by a siren sound; collecting this immobilises the enemies and turns them into smiling faces which can be collected for more points. An E disk adds an extra life, while a B adds points and increases the value of subsequent bombs collected.
Cheat Mode
multiface
At address &19FD poke 0 to gain infinite lives. - submitted by Malc (CPC Zone Staff)
typein
For infinite lives and 3 bonus coins at the start of the game, type in the following code and load the game using RUN ""
10 MEMORY 5999: BORDER 0:MODE 0:INK 0,1
20 FOR f=0 TO 15:READ a:INK f,a:NEXT f
30 LOAD "!bjscreen.bin",&C000
40 LOAD "!bjcode.bin",6000
50 POKE 6653,0
60 POKE 12222,12
70 CALL 6000
80 DATA 1,0,26,8,24,13,11,6
90 DATA 15,16,5,2,6,3,20,10
- submitted by Malc (CPC Zone Staff)
multiface
At address 0090 poke 00 for loads of lives. - submitted by Malc (CPC Zone Staff)
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Amstrad CPC Version
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britnostalgic says
"After reading recent comments about Bomb Jack, I thought I must be wrong about this game, as everyone on here constantly raves about it. So I sat down and had a marathon game fest on all three original versions i.e. real machines, no emulation. Graphically, imho the CPC version is the weakest of the three due to a smaller screen and badly drawn backgrounds, and why no music? It does feature good use of colour and maintains a fast pace. The Speccy for me plays just as good, but with the addition of music and very detailed sprites. The C64 is also good and features the arcade music. However; the sprites and use of colour look a wee bit ill defined but still manage to look better than the CPC. The C64 version also features a bigger screen and a brilliant soundtrack of the arcade music. This doesn't mean the CPC version is crap, just not as polished. The CPC version plays just as good as all the other versions and if you're lucky/sad enough to run all three versions at the same time, you'll quickly realise that my points are valid and although the CPC version plays well, it looks a bit nobby in comparison to the others. I think too many people compare screenshots and just take the opinion it's the best because the still shots look better, when they haven't even played the other versions. "
khisanth says
"An excellent conversion, easily the best 8bit bomb jack!"
badstreet74 says
"Better than the second game,class gameplay."
scooby1970 says
"The CPC version of this game is proably the best. Don`t believe the hype behind the Speccy and C64 versions, the CPC version kicks butt!"
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woody.cool says
"I would say this is the best 8bit version - not the hyped up Speccy version and definitely not the C64 version - the CPC is where it's at. Get this game now and see what you're missing out on."