Jetpack

Jetpack was a computer game for the ZX Spectrum where you had to guide a spaceman round an alien planet picking up pieces of his spaceship and assembling them.

Sounds pretty simple until you throw in a few scary looking aliens that don't like spacemen.

I remember playing this a lot when I was home from school one day whilst I was ill. I also remember watching Never Say Never Again on the telly that day. Mmmmm - sick days were great back then!

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Do You Remember Jetpack?

Telboy1001 on 2010-09-01 18:22:05

I remember Jetpac on the speccy. It was made by Ultimate (Play The Game), the follow up was LunarJetMan.Jetpac came out at the same time as their other classic games, Tranzam, Psst and my personal fave AticAtac (which did have an ending!!!!!) After that they brought out SabreWulf, KnightLore, Alien8 etc...they then changed their name to RARE, and are still making games for the Xbox360.

BigC on 2008-07-09 16:05:34

Did it actually have an end to the game. I thought that Spectrum games just carried on until the user fell asleep or your tea was ready! How many ships did you have to build?

Merlin on 2015-09-11 08:45:38
yeah!! I thought that too lol

prestodigitator on 2007-10-01 13:16:04

it was also smashing on the Vic20, which i had. got really far, but now, playing it again on the XBOX360 of all places (it's downloadable in the xbox live arcade) i find i am truly rubbish...

Anonymous on 2005-05-20 20:18:20

i still have my specy and all the games