Boldfield Computing

Alien Defender

Alien Defender

Jupiter Ace - Released - 1984

Alien Defender is a single screen shooter where the idea is to move around the screen in your spacecraft blasting as many aliens as you can trying to have more kills than the aliens. When you blast an alien your kill score increases but if you are touched then the aliens kill score increases. Before the start of the game you can select the speed from 1 - 999 with one being the fastest and as you play the speed increases. Moving off the edge of the screen makes you appear on the opposite side.

Amazing Maze

Amazing Maze

Jupiter Ace - Released - 1984

Amazing Maze is a maze game. The maze is viewed from above and the players start out on each side of the labyrinth. The objective is then simple: to make it through the maze to the starting position. Before starting out the player has a few second to study the maze before it starts. The layout of the maze is randomly generated before a game and according to the manufacturer there are more than a million different patterns.

Black Island Adventure

Black Island Adventure

Jupiter Ace - Released - 1984

Black Island Adventure is a text adventure over various chapters where you start your adventure in a harbour of a great city. Further investigation of the harbour, you soon realise it is deserted due to an outbreak of a plague and thus the adventure begins. The screen has text describing each location you visit and you type in commands with the keyboard to interact with each location.

Centipede

Centipede

Jupiter Ace - Released - 1984

Centipede is based on the arcade game where you control a craft at the bottom of the screen and blast a Centipede at the top of the screen, moving across the screen and downwards when it hits the edge of the screen or a mushroom. When you hit the Centipede it splits into two and moves in different directions, and hitting the new Centipedes creates more moving across the screen. Blasting mushrooms give you bonus points and you are able to move forwards up the screen a short distance. If you are touched by any part of the Centipede then you lose one of three lives.

Chess

Chess

Jupiter Ace - Released - 1983

A basic but fairly accurate for the time of release version of chess for the Jupiter Ace computer.

Frogger

Frogger

Jupiter Ace - Released - 1984

A monochrome (black and white) clone of the popular arcade game of the same name developed by Tim Skinner and published by Boldfield Computing in1984.

Puzzle + Bombs

Puzzle + Bombs

Jupiter Ace - Released - 1984

Triple Pack

Triple Pack

Jupiter Ace - Released - 1984

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