Round 1 music is the ending song from the Japanese animated cartoon series 'Spoon Oba-san', sung by the ultra-popular Mari Ijima (Lynn Minmay's voice in Macross). Tsuruta-san recalls how roles in Japanese development teams were quite interchangeable, in those early years. Curiously enough, the infamous Sphinx in the opening round was not rendered by the graphic designer of the game, but by Tsukasa Masuko, the sound designer. Do, Lady Bug and other Universal coin-ops. The original idea for Bomb Jack was conceived by Michitaka Tsuruta, lead designer for Guzzler and Solomon's Key, under the supervision of Kazutoshi Ueda, the genius behind Mr. TECHNICAL Main CPU: Zilog Z80 4 Mhz) Sound CPU: Zilog Z80 3.072 Mhz) Sound Chips: (3x) General Instrument AY8910 1.5 Mhz) Control: 8-way joystick Buttons: 1 (JUMP) TRIVIA Bomb Jack was released in March 1984 in Japan and in October 1984 in the USA. The basic play mechanic of collecting objects to clear a level, as well as the powerball feature, is hugely reminiscent of Namco's seminal "Pac-Man". At least until level 18, after which the levels are repeated. While the backgrounds themselves are repeated as the game progresses, the platform layouts for each level are completely different. They are: the Sphinx in Egypt, the Acropolis in Greece, Castle Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, skyscrapers and a cityscape by night. Each of Bomb Jack's levels feature one of five different background pictures, some of which represent famous historical landmarks. Picking up an 'Extra' symbol awards the player with an additional life, while catching the 'Special' symbol will give the player an extra credit.
Collecting the Bonus 'B' symbols will increase the amount of points awarded for collecting bombs with their fuses lit. If the player manages to grab this, all of the level's monsters are frozen for several seconds and can then be killed by having Jack fly into them (similar to the 'Powerpill' feature in "Pac-Man"). A 'Powerball' appears at semi-regular intervals and moves diagonally around the screen. Jack is pursued around each level by the spawning enemies and when he gets killed, he drops down to the nearest platform, always landing on his head. Only one bomb at any time has a lit fuse, and collecting twenty or more of these lit bombs on any given level will earn the player points bonus (see TIPS AND TRICKS for details).
Extra point bonuses are awarded for collecting bombs with their fuses lit. A variety of constantly spawning mechanical enemies patrol the platforms and airspace so the longer a player takes to collect all of the bombs, the more difficult progress becomes. Bomb Jack is a fast-moving platform game in which the aim is to collect all of the bombs on each level before progressing to the next. Arcade Video game published 39 years ago: Bomb Jack © 1984 Tehkan.
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