Bounder (video game)
Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "infobox".Template:Italic titleScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Bounder is a 1985 action game published by Gremlin Graphics in which the player navigates a variety of courses as a bouncing tennis ball.
Gameplay
Courses are composed of numerous tiles, which are suspended high above ground. The ball must be bounced past walls and over enemies; coming into contact with either, or plummeting over the edge of the course, results in the loss of one of the player's seven lives.[1] Courses feature power squares, which push the tennis ball forward and allow longer jumps. These must be utilized to complete the course. Power squares are also used to enable the tennis ball to reach mystery spaces, tiles with question marks, which contain extra lives and bonus jumps which are used on bonus screens. Mystery spaces can also destroy the tennis ball, resulting in the loss of a life, through instant destruction or by freezing the ball in place while a missile flies across the play area and explodes.[2]
The bonus screen is accessed every time a course is completed, it consists of mystery spaces which increase the player's score when bounced on for the player to receive. 40 bounces are allowed on each bonus screen, though this figure can be increased by the player uncovering more from mystery squares during the preceding course. Once all bounces are used or all of the mystery spaces are bounced on, play moves to the next course.[2] Bouncing on all mystery spaces awards the player 10,000 points as well as an extra life.[3]
Reception
Script error: No such module "Video game reviews". Bounder received a Gold Medal Award from Commodore 64 magazine Zzap!64 as well as a Your Sinclair Mega Game award.[3][4]
References
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External links
- Bounder at SpectrumComputing.co.uk
- Bounder at Lemon 64
- Bounder and Planet Search (Commodore C16/Plus 4) at Gremlin Archive
- Bounder and Planet Search at Commodore Plus/4 World
- C16 Reviews at Gremlin Archive
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- 1985 video games
- Action games
- Amstrad CPC games
- Commodore 16 and Plus/4 games
- Commodore 64 games
- MSX games
- Amstrad PCW games
- ZX Spectrum games
- Gremlin Interactive games
- Video games developed in the United Kingdom
- Single-player video games