Mighty Bomb Jack

A platform game in which the main character travels through different levels and collects bombs. The hero of the game, Jack, must make his way through 16 levels of a pyramid to defeat the demon Belzebut and save the royal family Pamera.Each level is divided into two parts: an action area and a room in the royal palace. The game mechanics and level design of the rooms in the King's Palace are taken directly from the predecessor Bomb Jack. The action zones can be divided into several sections and contain power-ups that are usually hidden in treasure chests, such as money bags, Mighty Coins and Mighty Drinks. Mighty Coins allow Jack to change colors. Blue allows Jack to open orange treasure chests, orange allows him to open any treasure chest by simply touching it from the side, and green turns all enemies on the screen into coins for 5 seconds. Mighty Drinks extend the game's timer by 10 seconds. To prevent the player from getting too greedy, the game automatically sends the player to a torture room if they get more than 9 Mighty Coins or 99 seconds on the game timer. The only way to escape the torture room without losing a life is to complete a certain number of jumps that are counted down on the screen. Once the player exits the torture room, Jack automatically loses all Mighty Coins, the timer resets to 60 seconds and the game starts again from the beginning of the current level.A Royal Palace room NES version.A Vs. Series version of the game was released in 1986 for the Japanese market not to be confused with the original dedicated arcade version. Differences between the original and Vs. series versions include the addition of a two-player mode, changing the locations of some secret passages, and removing a warp trick in the Royal Palace rooms. In the NES version, Jack could get to the next room of the King's Palace by touching the first burning bomb in the current room after collecting the other 23 bombs. However, if Jack died during the warp process, he was sent back to the beginning of the level from which the trick started.Mighty Bomb Jack also made a guest appearance in the Tecmo Super Bowl, during the halftime show at the Super Bowl