Some Bitmap Brothers games are getting re-released on iPhone and iPad this summer in a compilation pack with Magic Pockets, Z, Gods, Xenon 2: Megablast and The Chaos Engine.
Does anyone remember the saturday morning shows Gimmie 5 and Motormouth on ITV they use to have this game on as a challenge when kids would ring in and tell the directions
ARRGHH!! I HATED this game. I never knew what to do! Got stuck all the time, if I got further, it was a bloody fluke! I was about 10 years old when I had it! lol. I could play eey of the beholder, but I couldnt play this!
Here are some tips if someone plays this once more: Collect 5000pts / level to open powerups. You´ll get them by using big storm, cloud of whatever your weapon is. Trap an enemy with it and "open" it. Blue cup = faster shooting, Coffee cup = faster big weapon loading, orange bottle = more big weapon power, little milk bottle = health +1, big milk bottle = full health, cocktail = use big weapon charge to get multiple collectables, green soda = longer weapon range.
And a little more: Blue star = collect two and you´ll get yellow star to powerups. It changes for example: Mask = Invulnerability until mask disappears (hear ticking), Teleport = secret room, Gas box = flame rounds, etc. You´ll see the current special power available on east-south corner (changes after each kill) if u charge your weapon to maximum. Every 100 000 points = fully loaded powers until next level (you´ll get them from the start of next level if 100 000 goes over during the bonuses).
And one more: If a bubble traps you, you´ll lose all your powers. The bubble is easily destroyed if you have enough powers in your weapons. Hear a door opening, that means a bubble is coming. Note: Bubble will kill you in the last level and it cannot be broken.
I once threw out a bunch of jelly babies using the cocktail power up and one of the jelly babies ran away. I have never been able to to recreate this event. Has anyone else seen this happen.
Not the greatest game in the world but I have a soft spot for it - pretty much exclusively down to Betty Boo and the teenage crush I had on her at the time :)
Not the greatest game in the world but I have a soft spot for it - pretty much exclusively down to Betty Boo and the teenage crush I had on her at the time :)
Completed this back in the day. Gonna fire up WinUAE and do it all again. For its time Magic Pockets was ingenious. Nobody topped the Bitmap Brothers. I had to resit at least 2 exams because of this game, and it was worth it ;-)
This is not fulfilling. Every level has at least two star teleportable areas. And the artifacts found on latest teleports are so hard to get, no one knows what some of them do.
haha i finished this game in about 3 days, filled in the comment card that came with it ands got a call from the bitmap brothers saying i had hacked it!!!! i was only about 13 years old so they eventually believed me and sent me a free t-shirt. officially the first kid to finish it!!!!! loved all their games but my favourite was gods
where can i get this game?? 25 now and never got to complete it i need to, i dont know why or what level now but i remember there was a stage i just could not figer out how to pass.
thanks a lot for putting this up. i loved this game when i was knee-high to a grasshopper, but was awful at it - those old amiga platform games were uncompromisingly gruelling and often pixel perfect.... so the flashy consoles stole me away in the end. now i finally get to see what i missed out on, minus the trauma! it is much appreciated
superb what an amzing video I to spent ages playing this as a child. I never completed it. I recently got an amiga 500 so I'm going to brush down magic pockets along with gods, xenon 2 robocod, first samurai, speedball 2 and all of the other classic amiga games, amazing video
There was a process I remember at the very first level that allowed you to begin every level with full power ups.. There was just enough creatures in the first scene to allow this and the fist that changes in the bottom RHS had to be allowed to continue to the gold stars or something??? anyone remember or post the video?... A game far beyond its time... I played it for hours.
Yeah, you had to time it so that when you warped to the secret room, the next kill gave another warp, and you warped into a long corridor, you had just enough time to leg it to the end and there was a gold cup or something, and you had full powers for almost all the game. Was hoping he would do it as I can't remember the process at all.
In level 1-1 and 2-1 the trick is to teleport form a warp zone. So by combining silver and gold stars you must get a warp teleport and while in the warp zone make another teleport out of the monster who is inside....when you teleport while in warp zone you go to next world! in level 3-1 you must dive to secret cavern at the end of the level and get the white chalice...than get the teleport and of you go to world 4-1 ;D
good game from the bitmaps, but i was expecting a little more from the game after Gods - i thought magic pockets would be full of puzzels and more platform related tasks..but still an excellent release, but if you look close some of the grafics are very close to previous releases..
Yeah it's strange but at the time these revolutionary games were regarded as weird and strange with the press/magazines. In other words they thought the bitmap brothers sucked aheh. I remember some magazines giving this game a 5 or barely a 6. Crazy, I love their refreshing games.
I made it to the level before the final level (if you know what I mean) and died. I sat four hours in front of Amiga and I didn't complete the game. Che sera, sera. I have to try harder next time.
this was one of my top fav amiga games. To beat the bubble, you have to shoot it with full powered snowballs, run, as much as you can, and do it again. Make sure to get dat powerup that increases the speed you power up your snowballs(or watever u throw depending on the level)
Oh! This was my favourite game of all time! I had the Atari St version; however, I could never progress beyond that curses bubble on the final level! LOL
What did the masks do again?
iainhead 3 months ago
Lol. The ending is so lousy. :) Well played though.
joystickdotnet 4 months ago
Wish all their games were on PSN :P
Carl1298 5 months ago
Wow, hardcore nostalgia flashback. As a kid I never could figure out how to do the high spinny jump so we always got stuck at that place. haha
Oxygaunt 7 months ago
Overrated.
supahdupahguy81 8 months ago
Is that GODS mask he's picking up? XD
HolowkoM 10 months ago
Some Bitmap Brothers games are getting re-released on iPhone and iPad this summer in a compilation pack with Magic Pockets, Z, Gods, Xenon 2: Megablast and The Chaos Engine.
Does anyone remember the saturday morning shows Gimmie 5 and Motormouth on ITV they use to have this game on as a challenge when kids would ring in and tell the directions
rl1712 11 months ago
ARRGHH!! I HATED this game. I never knew what to do! Got stuck all the time, if I got further, it was a bloody fluke! I was about 10 years old when I had it! lol. I could play eey of the beholder, but I couldnt play this!
BuckFastZombie 1 year ago
Here are some tips if someone plays this once more: Collect 5000pts / level to open powerups. You´ll get them by using big storm, cloud of whatever your weapon is. Trap an enemy with it and "open" it. Blue cup = faster shooting, Coffee cup = faster big weapon loading, orange bottle = more big weapon power, little milk bottle = health +1, big milk bottle = full health, cocktail = use big weapon charge to get multiple collectables, green soda = longer weapon range.
x2029 1 year ago
And a little more: Blue star = collect two and you´ll get yellow star to powerups. It changes for example: Mask = Invulnerability until mask disappears (hear ticking), Teleport = secret room, Gas box = flame rounds, etc. You´ll see the current special power available on east-south corner (changes after each kill) if u charge your weapon to maximum. Every 100 000 points = fully loaded powers until next level (you´ll get them from the start of next level if 100 000 goes over during the bonuses).
x2029 1 year ago
And one more: If a bubble traps you, you´ll lose all your powers. The bubble is easily destroyed if you have enough powers in your weapons. Hear a door opening, that means a bubble is coming. Note: Bubble will kill you in the last level and it cannot be broken.
x2029 1 year ago
I once threw out a bunch of jelly babies using the cocktail power up and one of the jelly babies ran away. I have never been able to to recreate this event. Has anyone else seen this happen.
PhotoRealisticBeaver 1 year ago
@PhotoRealisticBeaver Never heard of that before!
flystatic 1 year ago
@PhotoRealisticBeaver
Oh god now you mention it yes I saw that once too.
Gorebash 9 months ago
@PhotoRealisticBeaver I thought I was hallucinating.
zcxhcrjvkbnpnm 7 months ago
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Not the greatest game in the world but I have a soft spot for it - pretty much exclusively down to Betty Boo and the teenage crush I had on her at the time :)
bluetonic78 1 year ago
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Not the greatest game in the world but I have a soft spot for it - pretty much exclusively down to Betty Boo and the teenage crush I had on her at the time :)
bluetonic78 1 year ago
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bluetonic78 1 year ago
Completed this back in the day. Gonna fire up WinUAE and do it all again. For its time Magic Pockets was ingenious. Nobody topped the Bitmap Brothers. I had to resit at least 2 exams because of this game, and it was worth it ;-)
digitalman999 1 year ago
Bitmap kid appears on modnation and he made #1 on the modspot!
PacGuy765 1 year ago
used to love Amiga's usage of real songs into 8bit lol
KingPadboy 1 year ago
This is not fulfilling. Every level has at least two star teleportable areas. And the artifacts found on latest teleports are so hard to get, no one knows what some of them do.
Mt7juans 1 year ago
anyone rember a game abit like this where you were workiing your way u a clock tower?
809Ollie 1 year ago
@809Ollie harlequin?
psorg 1 year ago
@psorg wow legend ive been trying to find that game for ages thank you
809Ollie 1 year ago
i dont get the ending lol great game but so hard
809Ollie 1 year ago
looks like gary coleman watch u talking about willis , remember this game back in the day
ianslifeshow 1 year ago
Ominous bulge in his pocket
shockedthemonkey 1 year ago
The Music's Doing The Do by Betty Boo
orangepeelx 1 year ago
my sister used to load this game up and listen to the music and then restart the computer to listen to the music again.... And again...
Lobbdalobster 1 year ago
fffffffffffffffff finnaly found it! damn thanks!
blutundeisen 1 year ago
@cubex55
You might just have saved my sanity. Thank you.
OHMYACHINGPLUMS 1 year ago
Can you buy a Windows 7 compatible version?
OHMYACHINGPLUMS 1 year ago
@OHMYACHINGPLUMS
Use WinUAE emulator :)
cubex55 1 year ago
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asus575 1 month ago
das game is so geil:D:D
tomEEEE89 1 year ago
haha i finished this game in about 3 days, filled in the comment card that came with it ands got a call from the bitmap brothers saying i had hacked it!!!! i was only about 13 years old so they eventually believed me and sent me a free t-shirt. officially the first kid to finish it!!!!! loved all their games but my favourite was gods
butlinbobby 1 year ago
I loved that game sooooooo much!! Very unique kind of jump&run!
Kazuya720 1 year ago
are those the original amiga sounds?
johnace01 1 year ago
@johnace01
What else should they be? Not every computer in the 80's sounded like a wrist watch or like the Atari ST. ;)
porcorosso81 1 year ago
where can i get this game?? 25 now and never got to complete it i need to, i dont know why or what level now but i remember there was a stage i just could not figer out how to pass.
mrleeballs 1 year ago
Classic game...but bastard hard!! lol xD
Squallxx1ionhart 2 years ago
im 28 this year and i still remember playing this game...feckin classic!!!
c1k25 2 years ago
My first game on my first Amiga!! I loved it so much! Specially the jungle and the snow world :)
katharinaisabella 2 years ago
haha, this is SO much like Godz
TomEdwards150 2 years ago
Quality post, brings back many, many fond memories when sat in front of my Amiga! Cheers!
FireKracker 2 years ago
there are no bosses in this game?
hotbasterd 2 years ago
Yes you face a challenge after each area, but the closest thing to a typical boss is the boxing match against the gorilla.
Gorebash 2 years ago
The Bitmap Brothers were the bomb!
JimSting 2 years ago 6
this is one of the best things i have seen on youtube.
mrleeballs 2 years ago 10
Brilliant game, Betty Boo is doin' the do
katakisLives 2 years ago
So that's what you're suppose to do on the last level....
I was stuck there...now I know. Like....15 years later...
Surreal1229 2 years ago
haha me too
Microbex 2 years ago
His bike looks a bit like a 'push-pirate'. Quality bike that one
iainhead 2 years ago
ooooooooooooooo Magic pockets!!!
i totally forgot about this game Wow the memories i had this game when i was about 8 im now 26 lol
deanrussell1234 2 years ago
Im 26 too man and this game rocked my world in the old Amiga time. Piles of disk boxes, stuffed with all the retro any gamer could ever want.
THose were the fuckin days!
Mugenloo 2 years ago
Fuckin' A man!
JimSting 2 years ago
thanks a lot for putting this up. i loved this game when i was knee-high to a grasshopper, but was awful at it - those old amiga platform games were uncompromisingly gruelling and often pixel perfect.... so the flashy consoles stole me away in the end. now i finally get to see what i missed out on, minus the trauma! it is much appreciated
hotbloodeddetectivej 3 years ago
superb what an amzing video I to spent ages playing this as a child. I never completed it. I recently got an amiga 500 so I'm going to brush down magic pockets along with gods, xenon 2 robocod, first samurai, speedball 2 and all of the other classic amiga games, amazing video
WelcomeToMyDomain 3 years ago
Excellent! Enjoy!
retronostalgic 3 years ago
There was a process I remember at the very first level that allowed you to begin every level with full power ups.. There was just enough creatures in the first scene to allow this and the fist that changes in the bottom RHS had to be allowed to continue to the gold stars or something??? anyone remember or post the video?... A game far beyond its time... I played it for hours.
canijuvo 3 years ago
Yeah, you had to time it so that when you warped to the secret room, the next kill gave another warp, and you warped into a long corridor, you had just enough time to leg it to the end and there was a gold cup or something, and you had full powers for almost all the game. Was hoping he would do it as I can't remember the process at all.
kingbuxton 2 years ago
I played this on my Atari STE. It was ACE! Its a legend!
Bungalow 3 years ago
Has this been posted by the same person who posted the million long hour (exageration) film of Lemmings?
webbhead92 3 years ago
No this game here was played by "hipoonios" as you can see in the video info, the lemmings videos were played by "RickyC".
Cubex55 is not a real person, for more info check our channel profile.
cubex55 3 years ago
one of the best games every made. i dont know how many hours i spent infront of my old amiga 1200 playing this game all those years ago.
WestYorks 3 years ago
Someone start a petition we need the bitmap bro back on xbox live arcade!!!!
Someone!!
Harrysound 3 years ago 2
ps: thee is also a brown chalice in level 1-1, its in one of the warp zones, get it and you will have speed atack in every next level ;D
betonman9 3 years ago
In level 1-1 and 2-1 the trick is to teleport form a warp zone. So by combining silver and gold stars you must get a warp teleport and while in the warp zone make another teleport out of the monster who is inside....when you teleport while in warp zone you go to next world! in level 3-1 you must dive to secret cavern at the end of the level and get the white chalice...than get the teleport and of you go to world 4-1 ;D
betonman9 3 years ago
good game from the bitmaps, but i was expecting a little more from the game after Gods - i thought magic pockets would be full of puzzels and more platform related tasks..but still an excellent release, but if you look close some of the grafics are very close to previous releases..
goldfred66 3 years ago
I'd forgotten how fantastic this game was. Thanks for posting.
chrs168 3 years ago
Ahh good old times
Sazumaru 3 years ago
I as obsessed with this game when I was a kid! =D thank you for uploading this, it brings back memories lol
Starfyre87 3 years ago 2
Its posible to go from level 1-1 to 2-1, from 2-1 to 3-1 and from 3-1 to 4-1 ;D Wanna know the secret? ;D
betonman9 3 years ago
Ya man, go for it. Secret warp zone like Mario, cause i started playing the game again yesterday, just got an amiga emulator!!!
LiquidFilter 3 years ago
ALL BITMAP BRO GAMES NEED A REMAKE!
Why hasn't the right been snapped up?
Harrysound 3 years ago 14
Your not wrong !
Gameplay at its finest !
poolysheriff 3 years ago 2
Yeah it's strange but at the time these revolutionary games were regarded as weird and strange with the press/magazines. In other words they thought the bitmap brothers sucked aheh. I remember some magazines giving this game a 5 or barely a 6. Crazy, I love their refreshing games.
royalsteven 3 years ago
I made it to the level before the final level (if you know what I mean) and died. I sat four hours in front of Amiga and I didn't complete the game. Che sera, sera. I have to try harder next time.
Mafrail 3 years ago
this was one of my top fav amiga games. To beat the bubble, you have to shoot it with full powered snowballs, run, as much as you can, and do it again. Make sure to get dat powerup that increases the speed you power up your snowballs(or watever u throw depending on the level)
LiquidFilter 3 years ago
So that is how you complete the last stage! It is not especially explained clearly as to what you should do to complete it!
nounnoun 4 years ago
Oh! This was my favourite game of all time! I had the Atari St version; however, I could never progress beyond that curses bubble on the final level! LOL
nounnoun 4 years ago
sicknessssssss
gindphace 4 years ago
Ahhh memories!
ryoko5 4 years ago