GoneLiketheSwallows2020-06-10 (10/10) It's always a pleasure to come back to this game (and over 30 other Amiga 500 games), I will always love the colourful graphics and the imaginative enemies and platforms etc. I play this game every day for weeks now again.
I will have something to eat from Haribo today, sweets with licorice in it, they remind me of some platforms in James Pond 2!! View all comments (4)
Colonel Kurtz2018-05-10 (7/10) I'm not sure. I've played RoboCod quite intensively for a period and enjoyed it, but level after level after secret level it started to drag: it required too much time to be spent on it in one playthrough, and after a while I just lost interest. In the end I probably liked James Pond better as it felt more "immediate" than its sequel - though that one I never completed either. View all comments (274)
arrow_19872016-12-13 (9/10) I still love the colourful graphics and all the imaginative enemies, objects and all the items you can collect. December is the perfect time to play this, but I always play it all the year. I just can't get enough of it. View all comments (43)
Dottor_Psycho2016-05-22 (8/10) Amiga magazines and users during the early 90's were quite preoccupied with the absence of a couple of japanese platforming franchises on the Commodore machine. Actually, thanks to games like James Pond II, there was no real reason for being upset about that. Robocod is a very fine jump and run game that was made with the Amiga in mind. It is entertaining, aestetically pleasing and has a few original ideas (8/10). View all comments (212)
mailman2014-09-28 (8/10) Nice and relaxing platformer. Mostly for kids but the older players also will have some fun playing this game. View all comments (732)
tony day2014-03-14 (6/10) I sorta like this game but there's one thing I despise. The music. Its sickly and horrible. And I normally like Richard Joseph. View all comments (96)
Puzzle Rattrap2013-02-26 (2/10) Another poor quality platform game on the Amiga - looked the part, bright and vibrant, but the designers didn't 'get' why the gameplay of the console games they were imitating (Forest of Illusion on the MegaDrive in this case) was so satisfying. An empty, hollow shell of a game wrapped in bright packaging. View all comments (100)
Lord_Maletoth2013-02-14 (8/10) Beautiful platform, very funny and colourful. Lots of extras, secret levels and crazy humor. The "extending torso" feature is original and adds something to the game. Music could get a bit annoying after a while, but it's ok. The only turndown in Robocod is the fact that the game is very, very long and there's no passwords system to return to the last level you reached. Playing everything back from the beginning isn't always big fun. View all comments (54)
UpTheDownEscalator2013-01-07 (9/10) Like most people who played this, I was extremely fond of it. Abundant extras and tons of game. Fairly straightforward to breeze through the first few worlds though! 9/10 from me. View all comments (24)
PortugueseWarrior2012-05-22 (8/10) When I got this I was excepting something more in the lines of the original James Pond - even after reading the previews on the magazines - so once I loaded this up for the first time, it wasn't quite what I was expecting it to be. The first reaction was not very positive. It seemed that they had "dumbed down" the game compared to the first James Pond game and it all felt a little childish or just too cartoonish. But as I played on, I soon began to realized the finesse of the programming; the nice, clean, crisp, colourful graphics; the not-as-annoying-as-it-first-seemed music; the precise, pixel-perfect controls and the sheer scope of the game that I ended up being enticed and almost hooked on it. I got this for Christmas and the whole snowy ambiance that the game has was very fitting for that holiday season. We liked it so much that it became sort of a tradition to played this for Christmas every year. We did so well into the 21st century... View all comments (211)
tony day2012-03-29 (6/10) Nice looking. Technically impressive. But it has a horrid nightmarish quality about it that i hate. The music is grateing and bad which is odd as it comes from the great Richard Joseph. The levels are huge empty voids that go on forever... And ever... And e v e r.... Its got a sickly sweet colour palette like zool. Its also horribly overated. Average at best. View all comments (96)
stooart2011-01-13 (5/10) I never saw the fuss with this game, the levels seemed too large with sparse baddies which gave it an unfinished feel. I preferred his first outing by a mile. View all comments (524)
Madfly2011-01-09 (9/10) I worked on this game, converting it to the PC (and Konics - a PC based console that never got released).
The game was very very good and we enjoyed the conversion. The PC release had some clever colour cycling for the background scroll - giving an amazing visual, great artist skill.
This game is still a classic, love it! View all comments (6)
Sodapop2010-11-12 Absolutely amazing game !!! One of my all time favourite !!!
Fantastic playability, wonderful atmosphere, technically over the top... Chris Sorrell and Richard Joseph at their best !!!
The game is HUGE, beautifull, very polished... I simply love this one !!! For sure 10/10 !!!! View all comments (5)
Isvenger2010-10-28 (10/10) Thanks Richard i will never forget your music... Nice game full of secrets and fun 10/10 View all comments (24)
comiga2009-10-25 (9/10) Its colourful, fun and has a supper jazzed up version of the Robocop music! Hehe! Its just about good fun, dont expect anything else from it, and you will love it. View all comments (178)
Dan Locke2009-09-16 (6/10) Meh, nothing special. The levels are big, sure, but that's only because they have so much empty space. And I don't get the fuss about the graphics - the foregrounds have strange shading and ultra-bright colors, while the backgrounds are simple gradients, which I've always hated. The scrolling is jerky as well, and, while that would be forgivable on the ST, it has no place in an Amiga game.
Scrawffler2009-04-05 (9/10) A true Amiga classic! Not the first Pond game, but probably the most famous and in my opinion the most memorable. From what I understand, this was the only Pond game that actually got released for DOS too.
Very well designed levels, I thought, which are pleasantly accompanied by bright cartoony graphics and catchy music. The James Pond series wasn't the most original series of games ever made - they all seemed to have similarities to a variety of other games - but the games within the series were all quite diverse from one another, so there was never too much of anything. What makes this particular game unique is that you can stretch!
Oh, and the flying bathtub you use for transportation too. I've never seen one of those in any other game. View all comments (185)
foadiron2008-11-06 (10/10) One of the very few 'old' games I still play and, IMO, the Amiga's greatest platformer. View all comments (18)
VEGNAcore2008-09-19 (10/10) This is it.This does it for me.SOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!
Legend has it that super mario world was created out of spite for this game.... View all comments (36)
lafey2008-07-16 (9/10) I remember playing this one with a broken joystick - just pressing the contacts with my fingers... Finished it at least a couple times - one of the best platformers I had the pleasure of playing. View all comments (27)
Lachie Dazdarian2008-04-23 (9/10) The best James Pond game and one of the best platform games I ever played. Super smooth and playable engine.
Very long, varied and fun game. Perhaps a save / password feature would be cool. View all comments (11)
jhice2008-01-04 (10/10) Great game where levels seem infinte ! Very beautiful and playable for a platform game on computer ! View all comments (1)
sonus032007-04-26 (8/10) The best platform game for the Amiga in my opinion. It's like Dizzy meets Sonic meets Mario meets Zool. Me and my little brother were late for primary school on the day my little brother got this for his birthday because we just had to load it up and have a play! The sound is cute and the graphics are pure eye candy (literally, for most of the levels). Very, very fun to play and my 16 year old copy is still going strong! View all comments (64)
witchdoktor2006-10-09 (10/10) Superb gameplay, cute graphics, nice tunes (thanks to Richard Joseph), huge maps, great fun! A must have. View all comments (26)
den2006-08-30 (9/10) Excellent platformer but the music drove me round the bend after a very short time. Penguins are still my favourite chocolate bar. View all comments (21)
boomtisk2006-08-20 Amazing, colourful graphics (I think this was even ported to Gamecube with a couple of extra parallax layers which proves that Robocod's graphics truly stood the test of time) and catchy sound and music, too bad the scrolling was slightly jaggy and Millennium dropped the ball on the level design (although there were some decent levels). Still a fun game to play with a metric ton of secrets which added nicely to the atmosphere, but playing all the way through it felt like a bit of a chore. View all comments (7)
squap2006-08-01 (7/10) Never really got into it and it's no Sonic the Hedgehog but there no doubting its quality on any level. Great graphics, good playability and genuine depth. 7/10. View all comments (94)
Nightbird2006-05-31 (5/10) I do remember liking this game when I was younger - colours in abundance, fun sprites etc. - however the appeal wanes somewhat these days. The fun factor is undoubtedly, and it's a very original game, but there's something about it which makes it seem less appealing than it probably should. View all comments (28)
ToiletSupreme2005-11-27 Awesome game! Loads of levels, loads of secret rooms, loads of stuff to pick up, and it all played in a single load! All round my favourite Amiga platformer. Levels could be a bit empty and could feel 'lonely' though, was a bit depressing at times... View all comments (24)
MageRage2005-10-06 (9/10) Great game, was a big fan of james pond - the extending body thing was weird tho. View all comments (61)
Kai2005-04-19 (6/10) Lever liked the James Pond games that much. It's a good platformer but nothing more. View all comments (809)
Robocoddess2005-04-02 (8/10) I can't really say that this is my favourite of the series that I love so dearly, but it's still a great game. While the graphics in general are beautiful (i.e. All the highlighing and shading), the graphics in this version are well over the top, e.g. All the trippy clouds that move in the train level. I'm disappointed to hear that the music here was used in the GBA version, but that's not to worry, because I still like it. Damn, I kinda wish I was my current age when the game came out...I would have really loved it then. View all comments (5)
LeeT2005-02-23 (8/10) One of my favourite platformers - Imagine if Mario, Sonic and Zool were put in a food blender (stay with me, ok?!) then the result would be this game. Addicitivity is the word here, along with some excellent cartoon style Graphics and some good tunes. Play this today! View all comments (99)
Kriko2005-02-09 (8/10) One of the better platformers on the Amiga, filled with colour and humour, and Super Mario-like hidden bonuses. But where's the SAVE GAME option?! It's such a long game... View all comments (201)
EvilCensor2005-02-03 (4/10) It has to be said that this game, with it's vast sprawling empty levels and over use on the (here at any rate) boring copper effect, returns almost nothing in the way of satisfaction when played.. Truly empty and dull I'd rather eat myself without condiments.. 4/10.. Play it so you see what I mean.. Nice tunes and SFX though. View all comments (84)
Shunichiro2005-01-26 (7/10) Cute 'n cool hero, colourful graphics, jolly tunes and slick playablity. It would be impossible to go wrong with that formula. But it did in some extent. You should play the game through in one go! Those huuuge levels! No passwords or save game feature! What were they thinking?! View all comments (166)
Dastardly2005-01-22 (8/10) I really like this game but the levels just seem too sprawling sometimes and its not always clear where you're going (to me anyway). Definitely on my 'to do' list. View all comments (20)
Underfly2005-01-08 (8/10) A great game to past the time away! Very colourful, so would of been so many colours displayed in this game, James Pond was fun to control too, his great abilities and very large levels. A Classic! View all comments (62)
Trantor2004-12-08 (8/10) One of the best jump 'n runs on the Amiga. Smooth scrolling, nice controls and colourful graphics. The lack of a two button configuration (one for jumping and one for extending) did make it a bit less intuitive than it should have been, but that still didn't make it any less fun. View all comments (245)
Ed W2004-12-07 (5/10) Good graphics and sound, sometimes fun - but had that 'x' factor missing when compared to the likes of sonic/mario..... View all comments (44)
It's always a pleasure to come back to this game (and over 30 other Amiga 500 games), I will always love the colourful graphics and the imaginative enemies and platforms etc. I play this game every day for weeks now again.
I will have something to eat from Haribo today, sweets with licorice in it, they remind me of some platforms in James Pond 2!!
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I'm not sure. I've played RoboCod quite intensively for a period and enjoyed it, but level after level after secret level it started to drag: it required too much time to be spent on it in one playthrough, and after a while I just lost interest. In the end I probably liked James Pond better as it felt more "immediate" than its sequel - though that one I never completed either.
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I still love the colourful graphics and all the imaginative enemies, objects and all the items you can collect. December is the perfect time to play this, but I always play it all the year. I just can't get enough of it.
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Amiga magazines and users during the early 90's were quite preoccupied with the absence of a couple of japanese platforming franchises on the Commodore machine. Actually, thanks to games like James Pond II, there was no real reason for being upset about that. Robocod is a very fine jump and run game that was made with the Amiga in mind. It is entertaining, aestetically pleasing and has a few original ideas (8/10).
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Nice and relaxing platformer. Mostly for kids but the older players also will have some fun playing this game.
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I sorta like this game but there's one thing I despise. The music. Its sickly and horrible. And I normally like Richard Joseph.
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Another poor quality platform game on the Amiga - looked the part, bright and vibrant, but the designers didn't 'get' why the gameplay of the console games they were imitating (Forest of Illusion on the MegaDrive in this case) was so satisfying. An empty, hollow shell of a game wrapped in bright packaging.
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Beautiful platform, very funny and colourful. Lots of extras, secret levels and crazy humor. The "extending torso" feature is original and adds something to the game. Music could get a bit annoying after a while, but it's ok. The only turndown in Robocod is the fact that the game is very, very long and there's no passwords system to return to the last level you reached. Playing everything back from the beginning isn't always big fun.
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Like most people who played this, I was extremely fond of it. Abundant extras and tons of game. Fairly straightforward to breeze through the first few worlds though! 9/10 from me.
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Great game! 8/10!
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Great game. Now, Im offf to buy some Penguin Bars.
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When I got this I was excepting something more in the lines of the original James Pond - even after reading the previews on the magazines - so once I loaded this up for the first time, it wasn't quite what I was expecting it to be. The first reaction was not very positive. It seemed that they had "dumbed down" the game compared to the first James Pond game and it all felt a little childish or just too cartoonish. But as I played on, I soon began to realized the finesse of the programming; the nice, clean, crisp, colourful graphics; the not-as-annoying-as-it-first-seemed music; the precise, pixel-perfect controls and the sheer scope of the game that I ended up being enticed and almost hooked on it. I got this for Christmas and the whole snowy ambiance that the game has was very fitting for that holiday season. We liked it so much that it became sort of a tradition to played this for Christmas every year. We did so well into the 21st century...
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Nice looking. Technically impressive. But it has a horrid nightmarish quality about it that i hate. The music is grateing and bad which is odd as it comes from the great Richard Joseph. The levels are huge empty voids that go on forever... And ever... And e v e r.... Its got a sickly sweet colour palette like zool. Its also horribly overated. Average at best.
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Very nice, yummy graphics. Played like a dream too.
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James Pond II is an extremely colourful game
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I never saw the fuss with this game, the levels seemed too large with sparse baddies which gave it an unfinished feel. I preferred his first outing by a mile.
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I worked on this game, converting it to the PC (and Konics - a PC based console that never got released).
The game was very very good and we enjoyed the conversion. The PC release had some clever colour cycling for the background scroll - giving an amazing visual, great artist skill.
This game is still a classic, love it!
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Cool Game. I Like The Big Levels And Stretching James Really High.
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Absolutely amazing game !!! One of my all time favourite !!!
Fantastic playability, wonderful atmosphere, technically over the top... Chris Sorrell and Richard Joseph at their best !!!
The game is HUGE, beautifull, very polished... I simply love this one !!! For sure 10/10 !!!!
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Thanks Richard i will never forget your music... Nice game full of secrets and fun 10/10
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Its colourful, fun and has a supper jazzed up version of the Robocop music! Hehe! Its just about good fun, dont expect anything else from it, and you will love it.
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Meh, nothing special. The levels are big, sure, but that's only because they have so much empty space. And I don't get the fuss about the graphics - the foregrounds have strange shading and ultra-bright colors, while the backgrounds are simple gradients, which I've always hated. The scrolling is jerky as well, and, while that would be forgivable on the ST, it has no place in an Amiga game.
At least the body-stretching gimmick is interesting.
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A true Amiga classic! Not the first Pond game, but probably the most famous and in my opinion the most memorable. From what I understand, this was the only Pond game that actually got released for DOS too.
Very well designed levels, I thought, which are pleasantly accompanied by bright cartoony graphics and catchy music. The James Pond series wasn't the most original series of games ever made - they all seemed to have similarities to a variety of other games - but the games within the series were all quite diverse from one another, so there was never too much of anything. What makes this particular game unique is that you can stretch!
Oh, and the flying bathtub you use for transportation too. I've never seen one of those in any other game.
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One of the very few 'old' games I still play and, IMO, the Amiga's greatest platformer.
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For me this is the best platformer on ANY platform.
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This is it.This does it for me.SOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!
Legend has it that super mario world was created out of spite for this game....
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I remember playing this one with a broken joystick - just pressing the contacts with my fingers... Finished it at least a couple times - one of the best platformers I had the pleasure of playing.
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The best James Pond game and one of the best platform games I ever played. Super smooth and playable engine.
Very long, varied and fun game. Perhaps a save / password feature would be cool.
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Great game where levels seem infinte ! Very beautiful and playable for a platform game on computer !
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The best platform game for the Amiga in my opinion. It's like Dizzy meets Sonic meets Mario meets Zool. Me and my little brother were late for primary school on the day my little brother got this for his birthday because we just had to load it up and have a play! The sound is cute and the graphics are pure eye candy (literally, for most of the levels). Very, very fun to play and my 16 year old copy is still going strong!
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Awesome sequel to the first amazing game.
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Superb gameplay, cute graphics, nice tunes (thanks to Richard Joseph), huge maps, great fun! A must have.
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Excellent platformer but the music drove me round the bend after a very short time. Penguins are still my favourite chocolate bar.
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Amazing, colourful graphics (I think this was even ported to Gamecube with a couple of extra parallax layers which proves that Robocod's graphics truly stood the test of time) and catchy sound and music, too bad the scrolling was slightly jaggy and Millennium dropped the ball on the level design (although there were some decent levels). Still a fun game to play with a metric ton of secrets which added nicely to the atmosphere, but playing all the way through it felt like a bit of a chore.
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Never really got into it and it's no Sonic the Hedgehog but there no doubting its quality on any level. Great graphics, good playability and genuine depth. 7/10.
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I do remember liking this game when I was younger - colours in abundance, fun sprites etc. - however the appeal wanes somewhat these days. The fun factor is undoubtedly, and it's a very original game, but there's something about it which makes it seem less appealing than it probably should.
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It was a good game! Nice GFX and sound, loved it
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Awesome game! Loads of levels, loads of secret rooms, loads of stuff to pick up, and it all played in a single load! All round my favourite Amiga platformer. Levels could be a bit empty and could feel 'lonely' though, was a bit depressing at times...
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Great game, was a big fan of james pond - the extending body thing was weird tho.
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A great platform game, one of the amiga's best.
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Lever liked the James Pond games that much. It's a good platformer but nothing more.
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I can't really say that this is my favourite of the series that I love so dearly, but it's still a great game. While the graphics in general are beautiful (i.e. All the highlighing and shading), the graphics in this version are well over the top, e.g. All the trippy clouds that move in the train level. I'm disappointed to hear that the music here was used in the GBA version, but that's not to worry, because I still like it. Damn, I kinda wish I was my current age when the game came out...I would have really loved it then.
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One of my favourite platformers - Imagine if Mario, Sonic and Zool were put in a food blender (stay with me, ok?!) then the result would be this game. Addicitivity is the word here, along with some excellent cartoon style Graphics and some good tunes. Play this today!
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One of the better platformers on the Amiga, filled with colour and humour, and Super Mario-like hidden bonuses. But where's the SAVE GAME option?! It's such a long game...
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It has to be said that this game, with it's vast sprawling empty levels and over use on the (here at any rate) boring copper effect, returns almost nothing in the way of satisfaction when played.. Truly empty and dull I'd rather eat myself without condiments.. 4/10.. Play it so you see what I mean.. Nice tunes and SFX though.
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Cute 'n cool hero, colourful graphics, jolly tunes and slick playablity. It would be impossible to go wrong with that formula. But it did in some extent. You should play the game through in one go! Those huuuge levels! No passwords or save game feature! What were they thinking?!
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I really like this game but the levels just seem too sprawling sometimes and its not always clear where you're going (to me anyway). Definitely on my 'to do' list.
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A great game to past the time away! Very colourful, so would of been so many colours displayed in this game, James Pond was fun to control too, his great abilities and very large levels. A Classic!
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For some reason this game pops up everywhere..... Go away!
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One of the best jump 'n runs on the Amiga. Smooth scrolling, nice controls and colourful graphics. The lack of a two button configuration (one for jumping and one for extending) did make it a bit less intuitive than it should have been, but that still didn't make it any less fun.
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Fun colourful game.
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Good graphics and sound, sometimes fun - but had that 'x' factor missing when compared to the likes of sonic/mario.....
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