{"id":22701,"date":"2022-11-02T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T00:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22701"},"modified":"2022-10-13T07:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T07:48:18","slug":"super-jagger-bomb-ps4-ps5-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/02\/super-jagger-bomb-ps4-ps5-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Jagger Bomb (PS4, PS5, Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back when I was a kid, one of the local pizza joints we visited at least once a week for their buffet was Pizza Inn.\u00a0 Like many other pizza places, this one had a few arcade machines in the back.\u00a0 You had your mainstays that were there pretty much forever, like Ms. Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, and Arkanoid.\u00a0 But this restaurant also had a couple of machines in rotation that I had never seen in another arcade before, or only once or twice.\u00a0 Some of these titles included stuff like Mr. Do!\u2019s Castle and Bomb Jack.\u00a0 Bomb Jack was made by what would become Tecmo and it starred a caped superhero character as he collected bombs in single screen areas while avoiding enemies.\u00a0 Its appearance at Pizza Inn is what caused me to buy Mighty Bomb Jack when I got my NES.\u00a0 The NES version added some side scrolling elements as well as obtuse hidden secrets that games back then tended to do.\u00a0 There was a Bomb Jack 2 on European PCs, but it was just a reworked Thundercats game.\u00a0 In Japan in the 90s there was a two player Bomb Jack arcade game called Bomb Jack Twin.\u00a0 But aside from an appearance in the Arcade Archives collection, a Tecmo classic collection on the Xbox, and a secret outfit in a Tecmo Wii golf game, there hasn\u2019t been much of Bomb Jack seen since.\u00a0 But if you want to play an imitation of the game, now there\u2019s Super Jagger Bomb, which plays so much like Bomb Jack, from the stage layouts to the backgrounds, that I\u2019m surprised Tecmo hasn\u2019t sued them!\u00a0 It\u2019s available on PlayStation consoles, Switch, and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

This review would be a lot easier if I could just say it plays like Bomb Jack, but since there probably isn\u2019t a lot of people who have played that one, I\u2019ll describe it here.\u00a0 Your goal in each single screen is to collect all the bombs.\u00a0 When you do, you\u2019ll move to the next stage.\u00a0 As a superhero, you can jump as high as you want and tap the button on the way down to glide, so you have a good amount of control over your character.\u00a0 If you get hit by an enemy, you\u2019ll lose a life and when all are lost it\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 Two kinds of power ups will bounce around the screen periodically.\u00a0 One just gives you points.\u00a0 The other temporarily turns all enemies into coins you can collect for more points, and it\u2019s handy when you need to clear the screen of baddies.<\/p>\n

There is ONE improvement this game has over the original.\u00a0 In Bomb Jack if you collect the bombs with lit fuses in succession, you could really increase your score exponentially.\u00a0 But it was hard to tell which bombs had lit fuses.\u00a0 In this game, before you start the level, they give you a preview path to take to collect the right bombs, and the lit bombs are much easier to see.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, everything else about the game is bad.\u00a0 They use the exact same level layouts and backgrounds as the original game, except in lifeless 3-D.\u00a0 One bad thing is that your character is taller than in the original game, so since the game uses the exact level layouts, they had to add a crouch move so you can fit in some of the spaces, which wasn\u2019t a problem before.\u00a0 But crouching is hard to pull off and bogs the game down here.\u00a0 If you lose all your lives, you must start at the beginning, so I wish there was a stage select option, too.\u00a0 Playing this game just makes me wish I was playing the original Bomb Jack instead, as this is just a cheap imitation.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Super Jagger Bomb is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 If you get hit by an enemy, you just fall to the ground while sad bleeps and bloops play.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may find it too difficult and\/or repetitive, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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