The SG-1000 console features innards that are fundamentally the same as those of the MSX1 (and the Colecovision) so it’s fairly common to see these kinds of ports. The other is far from arcade perfect but a real curio nonetheless, as it’s a straight port of the Sega SG-1000 version. Intermission… Although there was never an official release of Bomb Jack on MSX there are, remarkably, two different homebrew releases, both of which came out in 2004. Either way, even though I have a functionally arcade perfect version of Bomb Jack on Nintendo Switch, I can’t resist going back to the unofficial MSX version from time to time, just to hear those few notes. After all, the Eighties were a comparatively lawless time for videogames. It seems much more likely to me that it was stripped out of later versions because Tecmo never had the rights to begin with. Some online sources claim that Tecmo officially licensed the track for the original arcade release and then replaced it for subsequent versions, but I’m not so sure. However, if you play a modern re-release of Bomb Jack today, the tune is completely absent. I can see why Tecmo would have wanted to translate it into a jaunty chiptune. I’m not a huge Beatles fan but I do think Lady Madonna is extremely catchy. You might know it as The Beatles’ “Lady Madonna” but I first encountered it in the Aretha Franklin cover that ran over the intro to long forgotten Nineties sitcom “ Grace Under Fire”… because of course I do. When I played the game for the first time in 2004 I was immediately struck by the incredibly familiar music on stage 2. Moving that miniature hero around feels exactly as good as it should.Ĭomparing the home computer versions of Bomb Jack, from left to right: Atari ST, PC88, MSX2, Amiga, Commodore 16, SG1000, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX SpectrumĮven today, with the literal arcade version in my hands thanks to Nintendo Switch, there’s still one reason to go back to the MSX version. More importantly, Kralizec absolutely nail the feeling of playing the arcade game. The iconic background visuals, like the sphinx, look so close to the original and way better than the off-brand attempts of the officially licensed ports you’d find on other 8-bit computers of the Eighties. Playing these official versions, then going back to the homebrew MSX port only makes me appreciate how good a job Kralizec did back in 2004.
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I remember stumbling on an arcade cab in a London pub that same year and feeling unreasonably excited, like I’d bumped into an old friend, and more recently I’ve bought the Arcade Archives version on Nintendo Switch and enjoyed playing it with the Switch slipped into the Flip Grip for that full vertical screen arcade glory.
After falling in love with Bomb Jack on MSX, I sought out the real thing everywhere I could.
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