LGR - Jumpman - Atari 8-bit, PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Rocky
Hey, this was one of the first games I ever played! Though it was on the C64. a version I notice you don't touch on. There were more than a few differences between the C64 version and the Atari versions, mainly, the between level load was just a block with the name of the upcoming level, and there was no 'controlled demolition' on level end, instead it'd do a flashing of various bits of the level with bits of a harmony joining in when you completely ran outta lives.
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Hey, this was one of the first games I ever played! Though it was on the C64. a version I notice you don't touch on. There were more than a few differences between the C64 version and the Atari versions, mainly, the between level load was just a block with the name of the upcoming level, and there was no 'controlled demolition' on level end, instead it'd do a flashing of various bits of the level with bits of a harmony joining in when you completely ran outta lives.
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J. R.
Use to play this for so long my C64 disk drive would overheat. I was 7 or 8 so my solution was to put a slightly damp washcloth on top of the drives vents to cool it down. I remember it helped, but maybe that's just a false memory in my head though. I do know I did it many times, and somehow my floppy drive didn't just die on me. Uber hot air was shooting out of the vent, so my logic told me cold water would help lol.
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Use to play this for so long my C64 disk drive would overheat. I was 7 or 8 so my solution was to put a slightly damp washcloth on top of the drives vents to cool it down. I remember it helped, but maybe that's just a false memory in my head though. I do know I did it many times, and somehow my floppy drive didn't just die on me. Uber hot air was shooting out of the vent, so my logic told me cold water would help lol.
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Thomas
The answer is pretty straightforward: computers and videogames were born after WWII - and actually It was all war and missiles at first, because first computers were born to make ballistic calculations. Furthermore, don't forget that 70s and a good part of 80's were still the years of the cold war and many other conflicts. Then the 80's sci-fi got hold of it, bringing in aliens, spacecrafts, asteroids and superheroes.
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The answer is pretty straightforward: computers and videogames were born after WWII - and actually It was all war and missiles at first, because first computers were born to make ballistic calculations. Furthermore, don't forget that 70s and a good part of 80's were still the years of the cold war and many other conflicts. Then the 80's sci-fi got hold of it, bringing in aliens, spacecrafts, asteroids and superheroes.
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MrNotsoscary
I think this was the first game I ever played, on the IBM PC. (Had a PC Jr. too, but that came a little later. I remember 30 levels, but I don't remember the level demolition animations. probably because I'm now old. It was certainly my favorite for a long time. I liked hotfoot and the dragonslayer where you got the spear (but lost the ability to jump I think) Thanks for the review, it brings me back!
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I think this was the first game I ever played, on the IBM PC. (Had a PC Jr. too, but that came a little later. I remember 30 levels, but I don't remember the level demolition animations. probably because I'm now old. It was certainly my favorite for a long time. I liked hotfoot and the dragonslayer where you got the spear (but lost the ability to jump I think) Thanks for the review, it brings me back!
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Jacob
Your description of the floppy this episode reminded me of my first introduction to them - a hippy first-school (elementary school) teacher who had us geeky kids actually dissect one of the 5 inch disks to see what they're like and how they work. Steve, if you're out there, that day influenced my entire life and cemented my love of technology old and new.
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Your description of the floppy this episode reminded me of my first introduction to them - a hippy first-school (elementary school) teacher who had us geeky kids actually dissect one of the 5 inch disks to see what they're like and how they work. Steve, if you're out there, that day influenced my entire life and cemented my love of technology old and new.
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Appetite4
Nice review, but you didn't mention just how incomprehensibly cruel this game is. Like, the fact that those tracking bullets can be completely OFF THE SCREEN and tag you when you happen to wander too close to the sides. A lot of early games like this had their share of -poof-you're-dead- moments, of course. Unsuspecting players, beware!
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Nice review, but you didn't mention just how incomprehensibly cruel this game is. Like, the fact that those tracking bullets can be completely OFF THE SCREEN and tag you when you happen to wander too close to the sides. A lot of early games like this had their share of -poof-you're-dead- moments, of course. Unsuspecting players, beware!
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Jason
I loved this game as a kid. We had to load it from cassette tapes and it failed on the second tape 9/10 times.
On the Atari and commodore versions there-s a secret level showed off to friends and family, but now on an emulator I cannot find it. If anyone knows which level (floor) you get to it from, please remind me. Thanks.
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I loved this game as a kid. We had to load it from cassette tapes and it failed on the second tape 9/10 times.
On the Atari and commodore versions there-s a secret level showed off to friends and family, but now on an emulator I cannot find it. If anyone knows which level (floor) you get to it from, please remind me. Thanks.
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Jason
I loved this game as a kid. We had to load it from cassette tapes and it failed on the second tape 9/10 times.
On the Atari and commodore versions there-s a secret level showed off to friends and family, but now on an emulator I cannot find it. If anyone knows which level (floor) you get to it from, please remind me. Thanks.
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I loved this game as a kid. We had to load it from cassette tapes and it failed on the second tape 9/10 times.
On the Atari and commodore versions there-s a secret level showed off to friends and family, but now on an emulator I cannot find it. If anyone knows which level (floor) you get to it from, please remind me. Thanks.
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VapeyGamer
I remember playing something like this on a disc called 1000+ games for windows or something. It was titled flynn. exe. Ive been looking for the full game ever since but no such luck. I did find a similar game called loderunner though but my pc gaming knowledge only amounts to a whole lot of doom 2 and some modern stuff.
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I remember playing something like this on a disc called 1000+ games for windows or something. It was titled flynn. exe. Ive been looking for the full game ever since but no such luck. I did find a similar game called loderunner though but my pc gaming knowledge only amounts to a whole lot of doom 2 and some modern stuff.
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Surfing
Wow, they really did chose the most dreary looking level for the on-box screenshot there. Makes this game look like a tedious, ham-fisted -levels and ladders- game when actually it's quite flowy and dynamic, and the levels are quite organic and impressive for their time, full of slopes and unique gimmicks for each level.
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Wow, they really did chose the most dreary looking level for the on-box screenshot there. Makes this game look like a tedious, ham-fisted -levels and ladders- game when actually it's quite flowy and dynamic, and the levels are quite organic and impressive for their time, full of slopes and unique gimmicks for each level.
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