Magic Pockets

STORY / GAMEPLAY
A young boy, the Bitmap Kid, has a pair of magic pants that contain pockets with an infinite amount of storage space, and therefore he stores all of his toys in his pockets. One day the creatures who live in his pockets decide to keep his toys for themselves and play with them, so the Bitmap Kid must go on a journey to retrieve his toys from the creatures. The game is a platform game with standard abilities of walking, jumping, and hurling items to defeat foes. There are four areas in the game; Cave, Jungle, River and Mountain areas, each of which is split into several stages including a bonus stage where the Bitmap Kid must outdo the creatures depending on what toy is to be retrieved - for example, the Bike is found in the Cave area, and so the bonus stage is a bike race against the creatures. Although interesting enough, I found the gameplay a bit slow in all versions.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The game looks good and the Amiga version is almost identical to the Atari ST and Archimedes (in terms of graphics)! Although it uses 16 colors only on screen, the graphics are good with nicely drawn backgrounds. and well animated sprites. Both Amiga and Archimedes versions scroll better compared to the ST and PC (DOS). The game's sound is also good, featuring a great, funky intro tune and catchy in-game digitized sound effects (most of them are identical to the ST and Archimedes samples) but here we have a few more SFX compared to its counterparts.