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The game went to number 2 in the UK sales charts, behind ''[[Ghosts'n'Goblins]]''.<ref>http://ysrnry.co.uk/ys9.htm</ref>
*''[[Sinclair User]]'': <blockquote>"''Jack the Nipper'' is played in a [[Wally Week|Wallyish]] style reminiscent of ''[[Pyjamarama]]'', running wild through the village, searching houses, shops and gardens for objects you can use to create havoc elsewhere... wonderful "[[The Beano|Beano]]"-type characters - old ladies wielding handbags, monkey-faced policemen and mad scientists. And somehow ghosts and the odd [[Space Invaders|Space Invader]] have crept in to act a further hazards ... it's so tempting when you come across a well-tended garden and you just happen to have a bottle of weed killer ... And then there's the tin of glue and the false teeth factory..."<ref name="Sinclair User Review">{{Citation|title=Jack the Nipper Review|newspaper=[[Sinclair User]]|date=August 1986}}</ref></blockquote>
*''[[Sinclair User]]'': <blockquote>"''Jack the Nipper'' is played in a [[Wally Week|Wallyish]] style reminiscent of ''[[Pyjamarama]]'', running wild through the village, searching houses, shops and gardens for objects you can use to create havoc elsewhere... wonderful "[[The Beano|Beano]]"-type characters - old ladies wielding handbags, monkey-faced policemen and mad scientists. And somehow ghosts and the odd [[Space Invaders|Space Invader]] have crept in to act a further hazards ... it's so tempting when you come across a well-tended garden and you just happen to have a bottle of weed killer ... And then there's the tin of glue and the false teeth factory..."<ref name="Sinclair User Review">{{Citation|title=Jack the Nipper Review|newspaper=[[Sinclair User]]|date=August 1986}}</ref></blockquote>


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Developer(s)Gremlin Graphics
Publisher(s)Gremlin Graphics
Platform(s)ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX
Release1986
Genre(s)Puzzle, Platform
Mode(s)Single-player

Jack the Nipper is a video game by Gremlin Graphics released in Template:Vgy for several home computer systems. It was followed by a sequel, Jack the Nipper II: In Coconut Capers. The character is loosely based on the British comic strip character, Sweeny Toddler.

Gameplay

Jack the Nipper is a side-view flip screen game with puzzle solving and platform elements. The graphics are rendered in 2D, but an illusion of depth is achieved by allowing characters to move forward and back within the playing area.

The player controls Jack, a naughty child who wants to break the record for naughtiness (recorded on the "naughtyometer"). He needs to carry out various wicked pranks on the unsuspecting inhabitants of his town, but if he comes into contact by angry adults he will be spanked. With each spanking his "nappy rash" meter increases, and if it grows too high Jack loses a life. Contact with the monsters and ghosts which inhabit the town will also increase the nappy rash.

Reception

The game went to number 2 in the UK sales charts, behind Ghosts'n'Goblins.[7]

  • Sinclair User:

    "Jack the Nipper is played in a Wallyish style reminiscent of Pyjamarama, running wild through the village, searching houses, shops and gardens for objects you can use to create havoc elsewhere... wonderful "Beano"-type characters - old ladies wielding handbags, monkey-faced policemen and mad scientists. And somehow ghosts and the odd Space Invader have crept in to act a further hazards ... it's so tempting when you come across a well-tended garden and you just happen to have a bottle of weed killer ... And then there's the tin of glue and the false teeth factory..."[8]

ZX Computing praised the graphics.[9] The Spectrum version was voted number 40 in the Your Sinclair Readers' Top 100 Games of All Time.[10]

Comic strip

Starting in April 1987, Your Sinclair magazine published a monthly comic strip based on the character.[11]

References

  1. ^ http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/jackthenipper.htm
  2. ^ http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=Crash/Issue30/Pages/Crash3000017.jpg
  3. ^ http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairUser/Issue053/Pages/SinclairUser05300038.jpg
  4. ^ http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=C+VG/Issue059/Pages/CVG05900021.jpg
  5. ^ http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=ComputerGamer/Issue17/Pages/ComputerGamer1700062.jpg
  6. ^ http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=ACE/Issue24/Pages/ACE2400084.jpg
  7. ^ http://ysrnry.co.uk/ys9.htm
  8. ^ "Jack the Nipper Review", Sinclair User, August 1986
  9. ^ http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=ZXComputing/Issue8609/Pages/ZXComputing860900017.jpg
  10. ^ "Readers' Top 100 Games of All Time". Your Sinclair. September 1993.
  11. ^ http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/JackTheNipper-16.htm
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