TO BECOME KING OF THE ROAD YOU EITHER BUMP 'EM OR JUMP 'EM.Truly I haven't seen such a purity in gameplay naming since You Have To Burn The Rope.
In this home video game nice guys finish last. If they finish at all. For your Intellivision(r), and Atari(r) 2600.
I love the company logo, also. You know what it says to me? It says "In 1983 we thought that this typeface looked futuristic, even though it dates to 1968", another retrofuturistic indulgence that, like the cursed companies named in 2001, failed to look quite so futuristic 5 minutes after launch. The game's logo is a whole other slice of what the hey, also. If you just had the logo to speculate by, you might guess that it's a game about coordinating an orgy. (No wait, that's Mystique's similarly-named contemporary game "Beat 'em and eat 'em".) Then under the logo they elaborate... oh, it's a video game? Thanks so much for clarifying! I was hoping it was a driving school.
The illustration is practically a Roy Lichtenstein masterpiece. And what the heck, they were kind enough to throw in one screen shot anyhow.
Bump N' Jump is one of the games on here that I know more about than I learned from your advertising. It was a pretty good game, although I could never get past the second level.
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Oh, I don't necessarily have much to teach about most of these games, many of which I know only from their ads. I provide the critical role of guy who points and laughs 30 years later "har har, that's a misshapen logo! I hope they didn't pay anyone for that!"
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