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                     Newsflash Product Review : BOMBJACK
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              Released by : ELITE SYSTEMS [Encore Budget Label]

                                Price : £9.95

                 Game Type: Arcade Conversion - Platform Game

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  You are Jack and you have to fly high around the screen defusing the bombs
  and dodging the baddies in order  to  rattle  up  a high score. This Tecmo
  arcade game is now getting on in years.. how does the Amiga version look?

  The news isn't good. The game  was  programmed  and released quite a while
  ago and didn't do awfully well.  The  8bit  versions did though, they were
  very playable and good conversions. Unfortunatly  thats 2 things that this
  product isn't. One word it is though, is unmentionable.

  I don't think I've encountered  many  arcade conversions as lack-lustre as
  this one, the gameplay is just totally  removed from the fast, fun play of
  the 8bit versions let alone the  arcade  version.  Which is a shame as the
  game could have, indeed SHOULD have been arcade perfect.

  The game was programmed by PARADOX,  notable  for an awful series of games
  in the early days of  the  ST/Amiga.  Here the programming standards leave
  little to be desired.. I have no doubt you could reproduce the arcade game
  accurately using AMOS (reviewed also). But the worst feature is the music,
  quite possibly THE worst piece of music  I have EVER had the misfortune to
  hear. It's certainly an experience.

                                 Criticisms:

  Lacks everything it should contain,  eg  gameplay, nice graphics and sound
  of any quality. A lacklustre attempt of  a dated game in stark contrast to
  Elites release of Ghost's and Goblins.. is this really the same company. A
  baffling release that has very, very little going for it.

                                  Comments:

       I think I've said it all above.. Not a title I could reccomend.

                                   Ratings:

  Graphics   : 50%  Poor versions of the original. Slow moving sprites.
  Sound      : 5%   Simply AWFUL.
  Gameplay   : 40%  Poor, has little to draw you.
  Overall    : 20%  Elites worst release on the Amiga. Why bother Elite??

                      Reviewed by Martyn, Newsflash UK.

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  Any sadists out there might like to know that it's available now for £9.95
  and its a damn good way to waste good beer money. :(
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