Once upon a time there was an excellent game called Bounder by Gremlin, that made Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad CPC gamers very happy indeed. It was an impressive looking twitch-arcade thing with some lovely pseudo-3D graphics, you see, that earned glowing reviews and went on to spawn a sequel: Re-Bounder. Then the 80s came to an end, the 90s breezed us by -as did the 2010s- and the monster of the global financial crisis came to destroy the world and make the rich richer. Oh, and Gremlin did sort of revive itself (after obviously dying) under the label of Gremlin Presents and has even released the first Bounder sequel in 25 years - Bounder's World.
The game is available for your iOS device of choice, seems to take a particular liking to iPhones and iPods, and is available via the App Store for less than one dollar, pound or euro. Impressively the thing sports 144 levels, some lovingly upgraded retro-inspired graphics, 3 different worlds and four play-modes. Oh, and from what I've seen it does play rather brilliantly. Anyone that ever cared for Bounder is bound (sorry) to love this.
....need to lie down.. time travel still gets to me... a delicious trip though :)
ReplyDeleteAny sign of a android release on the horizon?
ReplyDelete@ Elderly: Here, and I'll bring you a lemonade to combat time-fatigue.
ReplyDelete@ Anonymous: Not yet I'm afraid, though it would be silly to ignore the Android platform methinks... Give 'em some time.
Yeah I agree it would be a strange move for a company in throes of trying to make themselves vital to a generation again that remembers there earlier work, not all of us are IOS owners we are Android owners too and we want the retro love too. I adored this game when i was a kid and NEED to have it on my Flyer A.S.A.L LOL
ReplyDeleteCouldn't agree more, really. We can all hope I suppose...
ReplyDeleteYou seem to be a man in the know and me being new to the android scene having just not long ago having gotten a HTC Flyer as a free gift on a contract and coming over from IOS world I'm wondering why a lot of the games that I download for and Android 2.3 and above don't actually work on the Flyer, I know it has a processor slightly overclocked just over 1.5 Ghz but surely these games that are optimized for the Tegra chip cant be too far out its reach. Feeling a bit glum about it all as I had the chance of the Asus Transformer but went with the flyer instead. More fool me by the looks of it!
ReplyDeleteSadly I really wouldn't know much, beside the fact that Android phones are wildly different to each other when it comes to hardware specs. It's not just the processor or the gfx chip apparently; or that's what I've been told.
ReplyDeleteYeah well at least retro games will play on any device LOL
ReplyDeleteBesides, we all know that Android is the phone platform of choice for a ton of excellent emulators...
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