Bounder is an arcade developed by Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd., released 31 December 1985 on Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Bounder is
Bounder is an arcade game developed by Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd. and released in 1985. It is available on Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX, PC (Microsoft Windows) and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player controls a tennis ball which is used to navigate courses, composed of numerous tiles, which are suspended high above ground. The ball must be bounced past walls and over enemies; coming into contact with either, or plummeting over the edge of the course, results in the loss of one of the player's seven lives. Courses feature power squares, which push the tennis ball forward and allow longer jumps, these must be utilized to complete the course. Power squares are also used to enable the tennis ball to reach mystery spaces, tiles with question marks, which contain extra lives and bonus jumps which are used on bonus screens. Mystery spaces can also destroy the tennis ball, resulting…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Bounder holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1985 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Bounder launched on 31 December 1985, within three weeks of Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter and Mercenary. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter, Mercenary.
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