Thing about Jet Pac is that here we have a game with colour, sound, bags of playability and has that elusive "just one more go" factor and all this in a game that was written for the 16K Spectrum. Yes when compared to games of the modern ilk or even games for the 16 bit it does tend to pale but call it nostalgia on my part but I think there is a lovely innocence and enjoyment to this game that you simply don't get in many games.
Next to Chuckie Egg on the speccy, this has to be one of the most addictive games out there that i've ever played even to this day, I had great fun doing this upload :-D
Here in the USA, there was only one way to play this game on a television, and that was through Donkey Kong 64 for the N64. The ZX Spectrum doesn't work here because we use 120V 60Hz NTSC Televisions.
I remember playing this on my mom's save file for DK64 a bunch. It was surprisingly addictive. I always thought the little meteorites or whatever those blobs are always sounded like they were farting when they blew up.
When I was about 14, I was always in trouble in secondary school & being sent home. I used to sneak home & hide in my bedroom & play this with no volume for hours, then pretend I'd just gotten home from school
This was one of the first games by the two people that became Rare Ltd in the 1990s, Chris and Tim Stamper. 😊 It turns out you can play a little bit of it in Donkey Kong 64.
I have the Vic 20 version (req 8k/16k ram exapnsion) and the Speccy version .. both good, I remember this being an advanced game for the time I always keep that memory intact I always imagined the game to be like the loading screen before I played it properly so there was sort of an anticlimax but I was always in denial and let my imagination run wild with the high hopes I had for games development as far as I was concerned I didn't take hardware limitations into consideration I just assumed that computers with the option to add more RAM would be limitless.
At least you didn't think the games were going to resemble their covers. I remember one which had a dune buggy with guns blazingm gleaming in the dessert heat, only to be welcomed by and array of dingbats, ampersands and exclamations mark as "bullets"
When I was 10 41 years ago. My mate had this, Manic Miner and Jungle Trouble. Jungle Trouble is still one of the hardest games ever, A right pain in the arse!
I've completed all 3 of these games without cheats, my channel has them shown in full with commentary if you care to take a look, you may enjoy them, they're under the "Lets Longplay" section.
Sometimes when I see a simple but really well made game like this one, I wonder what would happen if you put it in an arcade cabinet with the same hardware, would this have gotten a lot of quarters back then? I think it could have.
I think it could be a hit on arcades. It has everything arcade game should have: it's easy to start playing but needs some practice to get somewhere. Also the graphics look really crisp and fun even today.
ZEUSDAZ - THE UNEMULATED RETRO GAME CHANNEL It looks like a fun game to play. I never had the ZX Spectrum and it was never released on the MSX, although several clones were released.
I played this as a very small kid. I vaguely think I remember my dad coding it from one of those code copy books where instead of a program or game, the book had copies of code that you had to manually reproduce. Not sure if that is correct for this game since I was very young, but I remember finding the whole idea of you programming your own game from a book magic since the only other games I knew were Atari and NES.
Donkey Kong 64 was the best for having Jet Pac and Donkey Kong Arcade. Both games are iconic, of course Donkey Kong Arcade most people remember but this gem from RAREWARE back in their Ultimate days was one of the times in my gaming life I wanted to know about their early history.
This was easily my favorite game on the ZX Spectrum 48K, man I must have played that thing for hundreds upon hundreds of hours. After a while we figured out on a certain level you could just stand in one certain spot and hold down fire and farm points indefinitely as the aliens flew into the laser beam. The aliens could never catch you in that one spot so if you wanted to max out the score counter you just stood in that spot and taped down the fire button on the joystick and let the game play itself for a day or however long it took. It was fun for a while after we discovered the "glitch", but it obviously defeats the purpose of the game, lol.
Rare beat Nintendo to the punch with Wrap around scrolling, beating SMB2 by 5 years. For those less inclined, wrap around is where you go off screen and appear on either the left- or right-hand side of the screen. SMB2's first area before the door, shows this. Jetpac got this done years before. Jetpac also has no slowdown, objects fall at different speeds not affected by the gameplay, the objects are fluid AND it controls like a dream, on a 48k system! That's like squeezing all of skyrim onto a 32k cart with nothing left out. It'd take a true master of programming. Rare, you damned geniuses, YOU ARE GODS! for reference: Final Fantasy occupied 144kb and Dragon warrior occupied 49.7kb, just barely over the limit of the speccy and yet it packed in tons of enemies, weapons, great graphics for the time, an entire world, a boss fight and a beautiful score. AAA games today use tons of ram and can't get it right. Sometimes simplicity is best.
@alex76gr Thanks. Funny thing is i never got this far in the game all those years ago and yet after just two practice runs i played out of my skin and cleared all 16 levels :-)
+Svarthammarholet Penetrator easily the best Scramble clone on the speccy (longplay on my channel), and as for Jet Pac,...one of the most playable games ever along with Speccy Chuckie Egg :-)
I really loved this game. If you hit a key many times you could pause it for a second. You could actually watch how detailed the Astronaut moved his feet - or how the laser hit the Targets. How the balloons imploded really was awesome. I believe it was the shift key - one of the left keys down.
LOL I played my beloved JETPAC on my I7 8700K 5GHZ using SPECULATOR and although I have a usb KEMPSTON JOYSTICK I broke my record using a USB SNES PAD lol:) I thought the KEMPSTON JOYSTICK was king but the SNES pad is AWESOME !
The whole game had to fit in 9 kilobytes. It wouldn't take up that much more space, but I suspect they were already struggling to squeeze everything in.
You needed a very hi end hi fi to realise just how truly shabby the sound effects were in this old classic. But if you did, then it sounded like R2D2 with the sh!ts...
There was no room for more complicated AI. It had 16k of memory to fit into with no other storage, , not today's gigabytes of ram and terabytes of hard disk.
Johan Retsler this game is perfect as it is, mainly the spectrum version, theres always someone who needs to cry about ' duh it should have been like this, blabla ', in every existing game ever, theres always a way to find an imperfection on anything. Im a gamer since the first Pong machines, speccy version of this game is a classic.
The game was emulated incorrectly in Donkey Kong 64; The ZX Spectrum only ran at 50 Hertz, but the game was forced to run in 60 Hertz, causing the game to run a bit too fast.
AAl this programers expending millions and they dont reach the formula of the exit, that is after all simplicity and adicctivity, is like the song of la macarena...a formula of the exit. I dont like modern games because i found them, yes incredible graphics and sound, but lack of play addiction. They need to look at the past and maybe some day found the alchemic formula of making gold of a game (this 16 kbytes are gold because they sold a million copys). Think about it..
SPECTRUM 16K Phenomenal programing and i must say today's programmer are spoilt for choice/resources(1080TI/6 CORE 12 THREADS,5GHZ FFS!! AND 32M MEG and still struggle for GAME PLAY I REST MY FUCKING CASE!:/ WANK PROGRAMMERS TODAY and a FUCKING SHAME THEY STILL EXIST! BRING BACK THE BEDROOM CODERS FFS!!:) The core problem of game design is the programmer is only after the MONEY and this has to be stopped, and the real bedroom games designer has to be reignited, the games have to be ADDICTIVE and programmed with passion and I believe this is not happening and it has created this low grade gaming/games. If anybody out there wishes to send me a GAME CONCEPT then I will truely play it and tell you honestly what I think of it :)
JET PAC ADVANCED, ZX SPECTRUM NEW LEVELS MOD:
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the sound of the ship taking off just takes me back to christmas 1983! Great upload mate.
Yeah It's a classic :-)
Thing about Jet Pac is that here we have a game with colour, sound, bags of playability and has that elusive "just one more go" factor and all this in a game that was written for the 16K Spectrum.
Yes when compared to games of the modern ilk or even games for the 16 bit it does tend to pale but call it nostalgia on my part but I think there is a lovely innocence and enjoyment to this game that you simply don't get in many games.
Next to Chuckie Egg on the speccy, this has to be one of the most addictive games out there that i've ever played even to this day, I had great fun doing this upload :-D
Zeusdaz - The Unemulated Retro Game Channel i loved Pssst also
even colour clashing works to the advantage of this masterpiece of a game
Absolutely obsessed with this game! 40 YEARS AGO, NOW! Jeezzzzzzz…. Why didn’t I die young and leave a good looking corpse?
Here in the USA, there was only one way to play this game on a television, and that was through Donkey Kong 64 for the N64.
The ZX Spectrum doesn't work here because we use 120V 60Hz NTSC Televisions.
That's a crime man, you possibly missed out on some of the most memorable games which were released on the ZX Spectrum.
Rare Replay is also an option, and that version runs on 50hz rather than DK64's 60hz.
This game is dangerously addictive.
I just love it.
Your skills in Jetpac are great!
One of the first games I ever played. Great memories here. Thanks
Nostalgic.. I used to play this as a kid in the 80s and it was highly addictive. Thanks for refreshing my childhood memories :-)
My favourite game on the Spectrum! The loader screen is just mint! Great memories ❤️
This game is the reason why it took me until 2004 to beat Donkey Kong 64 (I got it in 2000)
One of the most playable and enjoyable games ever made :-)
I remember playing this on my mom's save file for DK64 a bunch. It was surprisingly addictive.
I always thought the little meteorites or whatever those blobs are always sounded like they were farting when they blew up.
So many hours of fun with both Jet Pac and Jet Man on the ZX Spectrum!
One of the most playable games in history!!!
When I was about 14, I was always in trouble in secondary school & being sent home. I used to sneak home & hide in my bedroom & play this with no volume for hours, then pretend I'd just gotten home from school
Hmmm id have had to turn it up just a little bit for the rocket sound though. If only once. 😊
Amazing!!! I grew up playing this game, was ace at it too.
Thank you so much for putting it on here.
Glad you enjoyed it :-) Be sure to check out my video of Jet Pac+ (advanced) a mod on the zx with new levels.
First game ever made wesley and roger gamers forever
wow looks such fun. Used to play this loads many yrs ago. Fun times. 100% playability!!!!!!!!
1980s sat in my aunt's house on my cousins spectrum playing this rock n roll
The first computer video game i played.
Great way to start off,...classic!
Me too! 😁
me too :)
Would've never known this game existed if it wasn't for Donkey Kong 64.
Cool. No emulated cheating! I recall ACG were two boys: one programmer and the graphics guy.
This was one of the first games by the two people that became Rare Ltd in the 1990s, Chris and Tim Stamper. 😊
It turns out you can play a little bit of it in Donkey Kong 64.
I have the Vic 20 version (req 8k/16k ram exapnsion) and the Speccy version .. both good, I remember this being an advanced game for the time I always keep that memory intact I always imagined the game to be like the loading screen before I played it properly so there was sort of an anticlimax but I was always in denial and let my imagination run wild with the high hopes I had for games development as far as I was concerned I didn't take hardware limitations into consideration I just assumed that computers with the option to add more RAM would be limitless.
At least you didn't think the games were going to resemble their covers. I remember one which had a dune buggy with guns blazingm gleaming in the dessert heat, only to be welcomed by and array of dingbats, ampersands and exclamations mark as "bullets"
When I was 10 41 years ago. My mate had this, Manic Miner and Jungle Trouble. Jungle Trouble is still one of the hardest games ever, A right pain in the arse!
I've completed all 3 of these games without cheats, my channel has them shown in full with commentary if you care to take a look, you may enjoy them, they're under the "Lets Longplay" section.
Bought my ZX with Christmas money and odd jobs 1984. I was 14 yrs old and sure it was about £105. JetPac was my fav
Sometimes when I see a simple but really well made game like this one, I wonder what would happen if you put it in an arcade cabinet with the same hardware, would this have gotten a lot of quarters back then? I think it could have.
I think it could be a hit on arcades. It has everything arcade game should have: it's easy to start playing but needs some practice to get somewhere. Also the graphics look really crisp and fun even today.
@@mattx5499 it's true; these graphics aged extremely well. Better than Lunar Jetman imo. Very charming aesthetic.
I played it when I was 7 !
Those fart sounds on my spectrum were amazing. When I put them through my Currah speech my mum got angry!
I play this game all the time :). Thanks for posting. Liked and shared for you. New sub!
Many thanks, I hope you enjoy the channel :-)
Feel free to pop by the ZX Spectrum gaming livestream tonight on this channel kicking off at 7pm BST :-)
Thanks for posting this.
No problem, one of my most enjoyable to play uploads :-D
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It looks like a fun game to play. I never had the ZX Spectrum and it was never released on the MSX, although several clones were released.
Thanks for the video, i was looking for a guide or something, maybe i'm too young but this game its very difficult for me haha
I played this as a very small kid. I vaguely think I remember my dad coding it from one of those code copy books where instead of a program or game, the book had copies of code that you had to manually reproduce. Not sure if that is correct for this game since I was very young, but I remember finding the whole idea of you programming your own game from a book magic since the only other games I knew were Atari and NES.
Donkey Kong 64 was the best for having Jet Pac and Donkey Kong Arcade.
Both games are iconic, of course Donkey Kong Arcade most people remember but this gem from RAREWARE back in their Ultimate days was one of the times in my gaming life I wanted to know about their early history.
I remember when I was doing a computer graphics course in college, I was asked to make concept art of a remake of this game.
This was easily my favorite game on the ZX Spectrum 48K, man I must have played that thing for hundreds upon hundreds of hours. After a while we figured out on a certain level you could just stand in one certain spot and hold down fire and farm points indefinitely as the aliens flew into the laser beam. The aliens could never catch you in that one spot so if you wanted to max out the score counter you just stood in that spot and taped down the fire button on the joystick and let the game play itself for a day or however long it took. It was fun for a while after we discovered the "glitch", but it obviously defeats the purpose of the game, lol.
Can't get away with that on the homebrew Jet Pac+, It's on my channel ;-)
Me and my brother used tostay up till 4:00am playing,this game...it was such a laugh.
Ah this takes me back
Ohhhh... Ultimate Play the game... another awesome game!!
those where the days,good old speccy 1st games machine i had
Loved my speccy 48k. Your Sinclair mags and always Hungry Horace .
I didn't know zx spectrum was capable of smooth gameplay like this. Looks a bit easy but also fun.
The magic of the ZX will never be understood :-)
It's actually pretty hard beyond the 1st level.
Rare beat Nintendo to the punch with Wrap around scrolling, beating SMB2 by 5 years. For those less inclined, wrap around is where you go off screen and appear on either the left- or right-hand side of the screen. SMB2's first area before the door, shows this. Jetpac got this done years before. Jetpac also has no slowdown, objects fall at different speeds not affected by the gameplay, the objects are fluid AND it controls like a dream, on a 48k system! That's like squeezing all of skyrim onto a 32k cart with nothing left out. It'd take a true master of programming. Rare, you damned geniuses, YOU ARE GODS!
for reference: Final Fantasy occupied 144kb and Dragon warrior occupied 49.7kb, just barely over the limit of the speccy and yet it packed in tons of enemies, weapons, great graphics for the time, an entire world, a boss fight and a beautiful score.
AAA games today use tons of ram and can't get it right. Sometimes simplicity is best.
This game is awesome and fun, love the 8 bit computers :D
The ZX NEVER ceased to amaze me with all the various types of games it came out with, zillions of them :-)
Childhood best memories 😂❤
Amazing 😮flashbacks
Jet Set Willy and Airwolf also great games on the spectrum
@alex76gr Thanks. Funny thing is i never got this far in the game all those years ago and yet after just two practice runs i played out of my skin and cleared all 16 levels :-)
The very first game I ever played, I remember this an cookie as being stand outs but I was only 4 back then.
A classic along with Chuckie Egg.
I used to absolutely rule at this game..
This and Penetrator was my favs.
+Svarthammarholet
Penetrator easily the best Scramble clone on the speccy (longplay on my channel), and as for Jet Pac,...one of the most playable games ever along with Speccy Chuckie Egg :-)
It´s over 30 years, but I remember I got to 800.000+ points. Then I retired from this game lol.
I really loved this game. If you hit a key many times you could pause it for a second. You could actually watch how detailed the Astronaut moved his feet - or how the laser hit the Targets. How the balloons imploded really was awesome. I believe it was the shift key - one of the left keys down.
Tried JET PAC+?! Called Jet Pac Advanced,...on my channel ;-)
The soundtrack is to die for.
Better than anything in the charts right now lol,....no seriously.
And this game fits into 16K Spectrum!!!
boy I loved this game ...
Classic.
I can't believe that I got ZX Spectrum on the Nintendo 64 in 1999/2000!
This was "Dying Light" of your childhood...
LOL I played my beloved JETPAC on my I7 8700K 5GHZ using SPECULATOR and although I have a usb KEMPSTON JOYSTICK I broke my record using a USB SNES PAD lol:)
I thought the KEMPSTON JOYSTICK was king but the SNES pad is AWESOME !
The graphics are insanely impressive
Brilliant game for 1983.
As simple as great, this game is.
I'm just here for the fart sound effects
banjo kazooie's grandfather
David Falcón ai???
The sound effects they are between a bird and a fart.
everything was 'tiny'
oh my god how could n64 get away withusing that z spectrum its not emulated
I am pretty sure you got a "game over" because you got killed, not because the game is over..as far as I know, the game goes on and on..
The game never ends, i just made sure i completed all 4 rockets (4 stages each making 16 in total) before it goes back to rocket no.1,...then i died.
I get it, thanks for the explanation.
:-D
Couldn't they have changed the platform layout, just once?
Check out my Jet Pac+ (Advanced) upload, It's a great mod with new level designs!
@@ZEUSDAZ Will do
The whole game had to fit in 9 kilobytes. It wouldn't take up that much more space, but I suspect they were already struggling to squeeze everything in.
You needed a very hi end hi fi to realise just how truly shabby the sound effects were in this old classic. But if you did, then it sounded like R2D2 with the sh!ts...
The only ZX Spectrum game that most Americans got to play thanks to DK64 lol. I highly recommend everyone go play Nixy The Glade Sprite!
My first Speccy game
Mine was Horace and Chuckie Egg, what a great way to be introduced into computer gaming :-)
A game i was very good at :-)
Just get a copy original of this game and playing, is adictive this stuff, incredible how simple things can be so atractive..
Yep, simple graphics and playability makes a great game.
No, Jetpac from ZX Spectrum.
Why are there Millennium Falcons in stage 7 lmao
Legend game
DONKEY KONG 64
AFTER COLLECTING
15 BANANA MEDALS
first computer game i played
Good old, almost gone memories... but this looks easy. But its not.
Сейчас смотрю и думаю, насколько это лёгкая и неинтересная игра. А в детстве было сложно и классно.
Donkey Kong 64
Would of course have been tougher if you would have had limited ammo AND AI would have been more intelligent, avoiding your shots.
There was no room for more complicated AI. It had 16k of memory to fit into with no other storage, , not today's gigabytes of ram and terabytes of hard disk.
And it ran at 3.5`mhz, which is probably slower than the computer running your fridge.
Johan Retsler this game is perfect as it is, mainly the spectrum version, theres always someone who needs to cry about ' duh it should have been like this, blabla ', in every existing game ever, theres always a way to find an imperfection on anything. Im a gamer since the first Pong machines, speccy version of this game is a classic.
Ai.
then it was the fastest, smoothest graphics
This reminds me of No Mans Sky....actually, it is the same, only graphics is worse.
gazyatri Except, Jetpac delivers on its promise compared to No Man's Sky.
donkey kong 64
Get the Rareware Coin!
Jet Pac
Cool
GG!
Better not let Elon Musk see this, he'll be using it as the return procedure for a Mars mission.
in donkey kong 64 it is more difficult it is much faster everything xd
What does Donkey Kong have to do with this video?
@@ZEUSDAZ
have you ever played donkey Kong 64? this game is in there and it is necessary to complete 100% of the game.
@@nchtblut Ah, now that makes sense, I couldn't understand why you brought that up but now I do, nope not played it myself.
The game was emulated incorrectly in Donkey Kong 64; The ZX Spectrum only ran at 50 Hertz, but the game was forced to run in 60 Hertz, causing the game to run a bit too fast.
AAl this programers expending millions and they dont reach the formula of the exit, that is after all simplicity and adicctivity, is like the song of la macarena...a formula of the exit. I dont like modern games because i found them, yes incredible graphics and sound, but lack of play addiction. They need to look at the past and maybe some day found the alchemic formula of making gold of a game (this 16 kbytes are gold because they sold a million copys). Think about it..
So many hours!!!
It's the simple games that bring the most fun.
you didnt finish!
All 16 stages done, just loops.
SPECTRUM 16K Phenomenal programing and i must say today's programmer are spoilt for choice/resources(1080TI/6 CORE 12 THREADS,5GHZ FFS!! AND 32M MEG and still struggle for GAME PLAY I REST MY FUCKING CASE!:/ WANK PROGRAMMERS TODAY and a FUCKING SHAME THEY STILL EXIST!
BRING BACK THE BEDROOM CODERS FFS!!:)
The core problem of game design is the programmer is only after the MONEY and this has to be stopped, and the real bedroom games designer has to be reignited, the games have to be ADDICTIVE and programmed with passion and I believe this is not happening and it has created this low grade gaming/games.
If anybody out there wishes to send me a GAME CONCEPT then I will truely play it and tell you honestly what I think of it :)
похожая игра на глуг глуг топовая игра
A classic.
2019
первая компьютерная игра в моей жизни
...and a good one too!
Space Farts
That's how he get's his lift ;-)
Great game but wow, what a lame ending.
Games only looped back then, guess not enough memory for endings.
Yeah endings were bad back then, but this is lazy even by those standards. At least display a "CONGLATURATION" message like most NES games did.
What a game. ❤