MMMC - Bump n Jump

[scooterb23]

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It may not be the most obscure game in the world, but it is one of my very favorite arcade games ever. Fast racing, high speed crashes, and huge jumps! I love it!!

http://www.klov.com/B/Bump_%27n%27_Jump.html

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as usual, Flack's going to be hosting the ROMs at http://www.robohara.com/mameclub/

There will be two ROMs this time, as Bump n Jump is a copy of Burnin' Rubber... which I've never heard of before MAME. I don't think the games are any different, so play either one.

OK, let's have some fun this week!

Oh yeah, I've been forgetting to put the list of MAME Club games at the bottom of each post...let me do that...


Previous MMMC games: Jump Coaster, Rampart, Jungler, Ninja Emaki, Port Man, Psycho Soldier, Metamoqester, Gunbarich, Sengoku (series), Snacks'n Jackson, Metro-Cross, Moon Shuttle, The Real Ghostbusters, Moonwalker, Black Widow, Kid Niki, Joust 2, Super Contra, Shoot-Out, Raiden, Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Dead Connection, Gate of Doom, The Outfoxies, Popeye, Baseball Stars 2, Intrepid, 1943, Super Pac-Man, Samurai Shodown II, Berzerk, MERCS, Spin Master, Noboranka, Carnevil, Boogie Wings, Battletoads, Sky Shark, Dr. Micro, Fire Trap.

A few of those look unfamiliar? Then search for MMMC, find them, and play them!! I'll be going back a few weeks, and making sure they are all labeled so they can be found through search.

MAME ON!

[Ed Oscuro]

Summer - 26,968

Usually this game makes me mad, but I was able to hold on to Summer (third pattern) without dying this time (of course I lost my lives rather quickly there). Capcom also put out a couple of games like Bump 'n' Jump (Last Duel a little bit, Mad Gear more explicitly) and while I don't get as mad at those as at Bump 'n' Jump, it's still a sweet little game. The mean-looking enemy car designs are pretty hilarious too. I think Data East made a pretty straightforward sequel to this game but I can't remember the name.

The game has good mechanics; you need to keep up a decent rate of speed (well over 150 km/h) to be able to bump most cars, and the bigger, more square cars (not necessarily the meaner-looking ones!) aren't easy to budge so you either have to start a chain reaction or land on them if you want to take them out. It's probably a better idea just to avoid them. What actually makes me steam over a bit is a bit silly - enemies will immediately stop without any trouble at the end of the road when there's water they can't cross ahead, while you crash or go sailing off into the blue with a short plop. Funny actually. I don't know all the new gameplay elements thrown into the game (if there's any past summer) but the enemies that toss out big rocks actually helped me, though I was wondering for a minute why a couple cars spontaneously blew up behind me.

Legendary game.

[TheDomesticInstitution]

Never played this before. On default settings and on my second try I got 13,524 and made it to the 2nd stage. It's an easy enough game to get in to and doesn't have a high learning curve- both of which are plusses to me. There's nothing I hate more than an entire credit lasting 30 seconds. I also find it easier than Spy Hunter, and this game is clearly it's predecessor. I'll definitely be revisiting this later in the week.

[InsaneDavid]

A true classic, great selection.

[scooterb23]

I'm a mid Spring kind of guy. That's about as far as I can make it in this game, even after all the hours I've put into it.

[slapdash]

Bump N Jump is the one arcade game I've ever rolled, but I've never played it in emulation. Hmm...

[boatofcar]

Anybody else find the NES port superior to the arcade original?

[chrisbid]

Anybody else find the NES port superior to the arcade original?


no

bump n jump for the nes is one of those 'enhanced' ports that annoy the hell out of me. there is no need for a boss or a girlfriend to rescue

with that out of the way, i fell in love with this game after playing the outstanding intellivision port for hours on end when i was a kid. my friend had the colecovision port which was surprisingly easy, but looked great, and the 2600 port is really well done considering the hardware limitations.

[slapdash]

I'm with chrisbid; arcade is much better. The NES version was fun enough, but a boss? Really?

The 2600 version had a serious problem with the predictability of jumps, IIRC. If I'm driving at speed X and jump at the same spot every time, I should LAND at the same place every time, and... no.

[chrisbid]

oh, and i dont know how hard it is to do on the arcade version, but if you manage to finish a stage without crashing any enemy cars, you get a 50,000 point bonus

[boatofcar]

I prefer the "suburban" look of the NES stages, in the same way that I prefer the 2600 River Raid to the Atari 8 bit conversions.

[chrisbid]

I prefer the "suburban" look of the NES stages, in the same way that I prefer the 2600 River Raid to the Atari 8 bit conversions.

if they had simply called the game bump n jump 2 (electric boogaloo) i would not have been annoyed. i actually like the idea of jumping over bridges instead of only water

[Ed Oscuro]

no

bump n jump for the nes is one of those 'enhanced' ports that annoy the hell out of me. there is no need for a boss or a girlfriend to rescue
It's off-topic, but this is another example of how Wikipedia isn't a very good resource for classic games. Whoever wrote the entry for Bump 'n' Jump seems to have referenced the text of the NES version to describe the arcade version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_%27n%27_Jump). I checked the flyers (http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=archive&db=videodb&name=burnin&year=&manu=&source=&submit=Search+the+Archive) for the game; there's nothing anywhere about a girlfriend (the "Burnin' Rubber" flyer has English text and is copyrighted to DECO USA so I think they might have miscategorized it, but anyway). So unless that's in some part of the attract I saw, or in cabinet art, Wikipedians are on drugs again. Game articles always seem the least reliable to me.

[InsaneDavid]

For the record, while I like nearly every version of the game, I prefer the NES build over the arcade original.

In RTM issue 29 I did a comparison (http://www.retrogamingtimes.com/rtm29/).