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Jack the Nipper

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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
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game with puzzle solving and platform elements. The graphics are rendered in
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praised the graphics. The Spectrum version was voted number 40 in the
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magazine published a monthly comic strip based on the character.
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The game went to number 1 in the ZX Spectrum charts, replacing
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It was followed by a sequel, 1: 782: 766:Crash Smash! award winners 731:Video games set in England 668:at SpectrumComputing.co.uk 592:"Jack the Nipper Review", 400:described it as having a " 756:Single-player video games 736:Gremlin Interactive games 348: 345: 209: 206: 24: 751:Fictional British people 571:Popular Computing Weekly 435:Starting in April 1987, 229:Computer and Video Games 404:style reminiscent of 140:released in 1986 for 614:worldofspectrum.org 553:worldofspectrum.org 535:worldofspectrum.org 499:worldofspectrum.org 481:worldofspectrum.org 463:worldofspectrum.org 342: 203: 721:Commodore 64 games 201: 726:Amstrad CPC games 711:ZX Spectrum games 643:"Jack The Nipper" 631:. 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Index


Developer(s)
Gremlin Graphics
Publisher(s)
Composer(s)
Ben Daglish
Platform(s)
ZX Spectrum
Commodore 64
Amstrad CPC
MSX
Genre(s)
Puzzle
platform
Single-player
video game
Gremlin Graphics
ZX Spectrum
Commodore 64
Amstrad CPC
MSX
Jack the Nipper II: In Coconut Capers
flip screen
2D
nappy rash
Crash
Computer and Video Games
Sinclair User
Your Sinclair
Computer Gamer

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