Giveaway of the Day - Jacks Bouldermatch

Another Magnussoft game with a larger than normal size ‘for an arcade game’, weighing in at 48.4Mb. (of course it’s not massive by the standards of most graphically intensive games we can buy today. {eg America’s Army is over 2Gb in size and is actually a brilliant ‘free’ multiplayer game}, but for someone on dial up it is far to massive to even contemplate downloading. Most of today’s game is as usual taken up by AVI, images and sound files. I do like some of the music though.

Unfortunately I’m unable to take any screen captures because this game crashes whenever I use my screen capture device; (as does all Magnussoft games). So for an idea as to what the game looks like please follow the link below. As with most of Magnussoft’s games despite it being given a number 3, I see no sign of a version 1 or 2 and there are not many images available:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=Jacks+Bouldermatch&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

I will be taking a leaf out of Brian aka Crashes books today and just posting a quick /brief review:

First impressions:

This looks like a really well made version of that time honored game boulder dash, with excellent graphics and easy game play. The music certainly adds some tempo to the game. And I had no problems playing it.

There really is no need for me to describe such a classic game, and I have to give it 7 out of 10 because it’s the best version of this game I’ve seen to date. Although I haven’t done an extensive search.

Check out the originals gallery of images. That should bring back memories to those commodore users of old, lol:

http://gotcha.classicgaming.gamespy.com/gallery/image91.htm

The game seems to run okay on my system. The only negative point I have to make (and then it’s hardly a big problem) is that the menus are mixed up again. That is they are part in German and part in English which is another common problem with Magnussoft games. However this in no way detracts from the actual game play.

My kids will love this one. Watch out for the boulders folks

Thank you Magnussoft and the game giveaway team for another game. Have an excellent day folks.

I may add a more extensive review in the forums later today, or tomorrow. It depends upon how quick I get over the physiotherapists cruelty today, lol.