A 1980s-style jetpack platformer. One pilot. Three lives. Many things that want you dead.
- TITLE
- Jet Blast
- GENRE
- Platform shooter
- CONTROLS
- Q / A / O / P + Space
- SCREEN
- Single-screen, multi-platform
- LIVES
- 3 (no continues)
How to play
- Q — thrust up
- A — thrust down
- O — left
- P — right
- Space (or the on-screen FIRE button) — shoot
You control a jetpack pilot armed with a rapid-fire blaster. Three enemy types spawn from the screen edges: grunts on foot (75 pts), flyers that bob through the air (100 pts), and shooters in purple that lob homing magenta bolts at you (150 pts, two hits to kill). Every minute or so the level rolls over and the pace ramps. Lose all three lives and it’s game over.
Inertia is your enemy. The faster you move, the harder you crash into the thing you were trying to shoot.
Survival tips
- Don’t hover. Keep moving — flyers track your last known position.
- Take out shooters first. Their magenta bolts are the only ranged threat; clear them and the screen calms down.
- Use the screen wrap. Fly off one edge, come in behind an enemy. They don’t expect it.
- Land between waves. Touching a platform briefly costs you no momentum and gives you a beat to plan the next strafe.