Bomb Busters, a cheap Bomb Jack Rip-off with a £25 price tag! WTF??

ZEUSDAZ · 27 November 2022, 03:00

So these cheeky B*stards took the classic Bomb Jack and churned out a cheap shitty version of it, renamed it Bomb Busters and sold it for a £25 price tag, 10 out of 10 for the pure f*cking cheek of it, anyone ever play this crud back in the day?,...or even suckered into buying it?
Should have been released as a PD name, no more than that.
And as for those music samples, surprised they wern't sued!

See what you think, play it if you dare!

Bomb Busters Shit Game Time Review: [ Show youtube player ]

Havie · 28 November 2022, 21:44

Words fail me...

gimbal · 29 November 2022, 10:32

My eyes! I already quit at the loading screen.

Megalomaniac · 29 November 2022, 10:47

That's bad. Juvenile sprites and backdrops, overuse of special effects on the constant loading screens (surely they could at least have stored some of them in memory after the first game?), two enemies per screen at a time, lousy collision detection, minimal sound effects, two disk swaps between games... The official Bomb Jack conversion was eminently beatable, but this is far, far worse. At least the reviews were deservedly scathing.

acidbottle · 29 November 2022, 19:48

100 places on the high score table .. just 1 more go

27 November 2022, 03:00	#1
ZEUSDAZ Registered User Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: England Posts: 756	Bomb Busters, a cheap Bomb Jack Rip-off with a £25 price tag! WTF?? So these cheeky Bstards took the classic Bomb Jack and churned out a cheap shitty version of it, renamed it Bomb Busters and sold it for a £25 price tag, 10 out of 10 for the pure fcking cheek of it, anyone ever play this crud back in the day?,...or even suckered into buying it? Should have been released as a PD name, no more than that. And as for those music samples, surprised they wern't sued! See what you think, play it if you dare! Bomb Busters Shit Game Time Review: [ Show youtube player ] Attached Thumbnails

29 November 2022, 10:47	#4
Megalomaniac Registered User Join Date: Sep 2022 Location: Eastbourne Posts: 1,088	That's bad. Juvenile sprites and backdrops, overuse of special effects on the constant loading screens (surely they could at least have stored some of them in memory after the first game?), two enemies per screen at a time, lousy collision detection, minimal sound effects, two disk swaps between games... The official Bomb Jack conversion was eminently beatable, but this is far, far worse. At least the reviews were deservedly scathing. Last edited by Megalomaniac; 29 November 2022 at 10:53.

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