Magazine Reviews

[Pix]

#7721

Just found the one review long enough to be worth sharing, the usual story with shareware. I was expecting this to be 90%+ but they weren’t all that positive and actually preffered Zool it seems:-

Also for anyone struggling to get it running on real hardware with a 200 error, see https://www.jazz2online.com/articles/view.php?articleID=17 which just worked for me.

[dr_st]

#7723

I think it was just that at the time (or for that magazine), 80% was considered a very good score. They are mostly positive, and praise the non-distracting visual style.

I do agree that on ‘easy’ the game provides virtually no challenge, but hey – that’s what the harder difficulty levels are for, no?

I remember Cool Spot, which they compare it to, being much more annoying to play, and not in a good way.

[Evil Taco]

#10169

I don’t have a scan, but the Finnish Pelit magazine does have their article archive onine: https://www.pelit.fi/artikkelit/jazz-jackrabbit/

They gave it 87 points, heaping quite a bit of praise on it but lamenting that it crashes a lot.

However, I have to note that Pelit used to publish these short reviews for the shareware episode, not the full game. In retrospect, it feels a bit off. They did mark these with a “shareware” badge, but still it’s kind of like reviewing a demo. It’s kind of strange to see these alongside reviews of full games. I wonder if other magazines did that?