Welcome to VC Weekly, N-Europe’s guide to the wonderful world of Nintendo’s download service. Written by Sam C Gittins

Not much to write home about this time unless you're likely to enjoy playing through a game that was bad enough on the Wii VC and simply must have it in its equally poor portable form. Anyway enough from me and on with the game!
 
Available for download this week we have...     

Mighty Bomb Jack



Price: GB £4.49, EU €4.99
Publisher: Tecmo
Developer: Tecmo
Released: 1992
System: NES

The original Bomb Jack was a classic arcade game of it's time; it's trademark game concept in which you controlled Jack on a screen where you were tasked with collecting no less than twenty bombs in a specific order, earned it a cult following. So why take a winning concept and then attempt to "improve" upon it by adapting it from arcade game to platform game for it's console release?

It seems completely nonsensical to me but nonetheless that is what has been done in the case of Mighty Bomb Jack. We are left with a side-scrolling platform game which has a main character that doesn't act like you might have come to expect from other far superior examples of the platform genre; this leaves the experience feeling quite broken and personally I found it a difficult game to get into or enjoy.

Not to say it's a complete failure though; it's enjoyable and yet frustrating almost seemingly simultaneously. It's main shortcomings are a lack of proper control over the main character and annoyingly sporadic enemy movement. Some may feel that these points are integral to the way the game plays but it's clear to any gamer who has enjoyed the platform genre regularly thats there are far better tried and tested concepts that work; Mighty Bomb Jack isn't one such example.

Verdict : A sequel that bombs; hit the road Jack.

That's it for another installment of VC Weekly which will return again soon. So until then, enjoy the rest of the week and Game On!