Bounty Bob Strikes Back! (1985) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Bounty Bob Strikes Back!

Bounty Bob returns in this new and exciting follow-up adventure to Miner 2049er. This time around it's even tougher than before and Bob needs your help more than ever to guide him through the mine. The mutant…

70 2 January 1985

What Bounty Bob Strikes Back! is

Bounty Bob Strikes Back! is an arcade game developed by Big Five Software and released in 1985. It is available on Atari 5200, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Bounty Bob returns in this new and exciting follow-up adventure to Miner 2049er. This time around it's even tougher than before and Bob needs your help more than ever to guide him through the mine. The mutant organisms have multiplied and over the mine entirely. making it extremely difficult to survive the hazards of the underground passageways. Using the high-powered special equipment in the twenty-five new caverns is Bob's only hope of achieving his objective of securing the mine and defeating the plans of the evil Yukon Yohan

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Bounty Bob Strikes Back! holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1985 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Bounty Bob Strikes Back! launched on 2 January 1985, within three weeks of Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike and Balloon Fight. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike, Balloon Fight.

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