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Bomb Jack

The player controls Jack, a superhero who can leap and glide. Someone has planted 24 bombs at famous tourist sites (the Sphinx and Great Pyramids, the Acropolis, Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, and two…

31 December 1986

Bomb Jack is an arcade developed by Tehkan, released 31 December 1986 on Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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What Bomb Jack is

Bomb Jack is an arcade game developed by Tehkan and released in 1986. It was published by Elite Systems. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The player controls Jack, a superhero who can leap and glide. Someone has planted 24 bombs at famous tourist sites (the Sphinx and Great Pyramids, the Acropolis, Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, and two cityscapes resembling Miami Beach and Hollywood, which appear only as screen backgrounds rather than unique game locations). Jack must fly around the screen to collect the bombs. Each screen uses a different configuration of platforms upon which Jack may run and jump. Eventually, the levels reoccur a number of times with increasing difficulty. Jack "defuses" the bombs by simply touching them. As soon as he has touched the first, he triggers a sequence in which another bomb's fuse lights up…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Bomb Jack launched on 31 December 1986, within three weeks of World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel and Rebelstar.

Released around the same time: World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel, Rebelstar.

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When did Bomb Jack come out?
Bomb Jack was released on 31 December 1986 for Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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