Solar Jetman

This game was on the NES. This game is an updated version of Jetpac mentioned previously. Only this time you get to control a ship and you roam around a large scrolling area.

At first I thought this was a great idea. Same addictive principle of collecting the different parts of the ship and collecting the fuels and then blasting off to another zone/world. However, it's not as pick up and play as the original. In fact if your not a patient person who likes to control your thrusters using short bursts, then this can be a slow game and the controls can sometimes fustrate you.

What's novel about the game is that should your ship get destroyed, you are can still fly back to your main ship using your jetpac and recharge/repair. This is great as otherwise it would be a fustrating and difficult game.

All in all, I do like this game, just because I loved the original theme of picking up parts to blast off. What I don't really like is the difficulty and the off pace control of the ship.

Jetpac - Space Fuel Addiction

This is just an excellent game. No music to mention of and that's the beauty of it. It's just pure sound effects. Admittedly the lazer sound effects sound like someone squashed a whoopee cushion, but when your ready to lift off, the clicky-clicky sound is just great.

The graphics are also great too. Just the basics and simplicity makes it just clean and uncluttered.
The thing with the graphics is the fact that if you updated it with thousands of colors, or if you updated it with a 3d version it would lose all of it's charm.

The difficulty level is just right, getting progressively harder, but even if you have to start the game over, just collecting the fuel and missing parts to the ship in order to lift off is just addictive.
If only there was a version on my cellphone.

Absolute gem of a game.