| Credits | |
| Published: |
1990, Infogrames
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| Creator: | Christophe Laboureau |
| Coder: | Damien Petit, P. Sciro |
| Graphics: | Christophe Laboureau, Didier Chanfray |
| Musician: | Stéphane Picq |
| Information | |
| Hardware: | OCS |
| Disks: | 1 |
| License: | Commercial |
| Language: | English |
| Players: | 1 or 2 |
| Categorization | |
| Genre: | Brain |
| Subgenre: | Puzzle |
| Tags: | puzzle, topdown |
| Magazine Reviews | |
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Added by Kim Lemon on Jul 7, 2004. Viewed 26877 times.
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Read review by Jaakko Seppälä
Graphics: 8 ‧
Music: 10 ‧
Playability: 9 ‧
Overall: 9
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One of the very first Amiga game I ever played. If not THE first. As such Jumping Jackson will always have a very special place in my heart. Not to mention a great playing character, good puzzling, and some seriously good toons. Yeah...yeah...yeah...
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Mildly entertaining action puzzler. Inspired by other games like the ancient Q-Bert, it has an original look and feel anyways. Decent (6/10).
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Excellent motivational trick having you get all the records spinning on the level so you can enjoy music and not silence. The puzzles can be devilish and later levels take much thought. Some down marks have to be given due to often unfairness of the enemy players, which have a habit of teleporting on top of you.
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One of the first games that I got for the Amiga. What I remember more fondly about it was its quite impressive title tune. Everything else was not my cup of tea at the time. Since I didn't bought it (it was given to me by someone) I had no problems in putting it aside. Maybe now that I'm (a little) more mature, I should give this one a new go... I'll try it via emulation before I cast a vote.
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The title theme of Jumping Jack'son reminds me of several different songs by The Rolling Stones. The titular character was cute as a button. I loved those moments when he would start air jamming. The excellent soundtrack and the gradually more difficult puzzles had me hooked on the game for days.
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Fun puzzle game with awesome music! You really wanted to collect all records to hear the next part of the song! Yeah!
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Nice music.
Great design.
Collect records on the board and place them on record players to elicit
music and complete levels.
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Quite possibly my favorite game on the Amiga.
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Good music, even after this many years it's still stuck in my head.
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Another great Stephane Picq soundtrack! I don't remember much of the game, more than that I quite enjoyed it. I'll definitely have to play it soon - in an emulator, til I get another null-modem cable.
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The music was so great, I never wanted to hit the exit! Especially the heavy rock tune. Also, whenever you kept jumping in a straight line for some time, Jack'son would lean back, play "air guitar" and shout something gibberish. Funny!
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Original puzzle with great sounds/ music and gfx.
Timeless great game !
I loved this !
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Idea is fine but the game does not manage to keep me interested very long time. An average puzzle-action game. Music in this game is very nice, it has electric guitar samples and digitized singing.
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One of my favourite puzzle games at the time of its release, funky music, and some nice little touches making it entertaining
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This was my favourite puzzle game on the Amiga, for two reasons. First, the puzzles didn't make you tear your hair out in frustration - the game is actually more about exploring and collecting items rather then solving puzzles. Secondly, the music in this game ROCKS. HARD. REALLY. HARD. The music on level three is a personal favourite of mine. Also, the graphics are so pretty, with a great use of colour - in a time when many Amiga games were forced to use multiple shades of gray, Jumping Jack'son rebels with bright and daring colours, which fits the rock music theme of the game perfectly. My only gripe is that the later levels do become abit unfair in terms of difficulty. But otherwise, a very enjoyable game, and a literal assault on the senses.
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The excellent music was maybe 90% of the incentive to play this game. Colourful graphics and OK gameplay too, not a bad game (but not superb either)!
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Jolly good graphics, but it was the music that made me play this game. A good puzzle game, definitely.
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Good fun - one of the coolest game characters ever!
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