C&VG


Jump Jet
By Anirog
Amstrad CPC464

 
Published in Computer & Video Games #48

Jump Jet

The Amstrad version of Anirog's Jump Jet takes off hoping to follow the Commodore version high into the charts.

Written by former jump jet pilot Vaughan Dow, Jump Jet combines flight simulation with the thrills and spills of combat.

There is a practice level and four other combat mode - flight lieutenant, squadron leader, wing commander and group captain.

As with the Commodore version, the instrument panel is on view all the time. The initial screen is a bird's eye view of the jet on its aircraft. As the jet rises to above 50 feet, the screen is split into two views - one showing a side view of the carrier and jet, the other a rear view.

Above 200 feet the view is from the cockpit and you are free to track, pursue and, hopefully, destroy the enemy aircraft.