Bomb Jack

Sega · 1985

Tehkan's 1984 arcade game, converted to Sega's machine. Jack floats over famous skylines — Egypt, the Acropolis, a castle — gathering the bombs strung across the girders while enemies wander the platforms. Lighting the fuses in the right order multiplies the score, and the whole game rests on the jump: Jack falls slowly and the button controls how long he hangs, so the platforms are less a floor than a suggestion.

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Format

My card

Platform

Sega SG-1000 / SC-3000

Product code

C-61

Publisher

Sega

Year

1985

Hardware

32K ROM + 2K RAM

Loads straight into SE3K, an emulator of the real hardware: Z80 CPU, TMS9918A video and SN76489 sound, with the CRT picture reproduced by the shaders. Nothing to install.

Elsewhere

• The coin-op it came from — Tehkan, 1984 Museum of the Game
• Original arcade flyer The Arcade Flyer Archive