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Amazing remake of Bomb Jack for 40-year-old 8-bit computer

Rob Beschizza
Mar 11, 2025
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Bomb Jack Extra Sugar

Anthony Flack's Bomb Jack Extra Sugar is a remake of arcade classic Bomb Jack for the Amstrad CPC, an 8-bit microcomputer popular in Europe in the 1980s. It's a remarkable implementation of the game, achieving near-arcade perfection from an unlikely system by using every trick in its book.

Works on any CPC with a disk drive or mass s…

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