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Bomb Jack II

Bomb Jack II is a licensed follow-up developed for 8-bit home computers by the British games publisher Elite Systems in 1986. The game went to number 2 in the UK sales charts, behind Leaderboard. Mighty Bomb…

31 December 1986

Bomb Jack II is an arcade developed by Elite Systems, released 31 December 1986 on Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.

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What Bomb Jack II is

Bomb Jack II is an arcade game developed by Elite Systems and released in 1986. It is available on Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Bomb Jack II is a licensed follow-up developed for 8-bit home computers by the British games publisher Elite Systems in 1986. The game went to number 2 in the UK sales charts, behind Leaderboard. Mighty Bomb Jack was released in 1986. The game was largely identical to the original game in almost all factors, except that the same screen layouts from the first game in the same sequence were now linked in a map-like continuous form by scrolling passages. Mighty Bomb Jack got less favorable reviews than the original game. Bomb Jack Twin was released in 1993 by NMK. In this version, two players could play simultaneously.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Bomb Jack II 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 II come out?
Bomb Jack II was released on 31 December 1986 for Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.

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