Hamster Jam
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HamsterJam is a Windows remake of an old game called Rockman. Rockman was released by Mastertronic in 1985 and gave Vic-20 owners a frantic treasure collecting, boulder dodging game, all within 3.5K of RAM. This is one of the few in our most favourite games list.
Rockman has similarities with games such as Repton or Boulderdash, however the gameplay makes it stand out in its own right. Rolling boulders that bounce and split in two gives Rockman its unique charm and challenging gameplay. All the action is on one large colourful screen, and the player can choose which route to take through the twenty rooms in their quest to collect all rings.
In remaking Rockman we have painstakingly recreated all rooms and implemented the same behaviour and game logic. The graphics had a big and bold quality which we did not want to loose and we decided to carry this across by using a high resolution of 1024×768 pixels. The characters were typical of Vic-20 games and in updating them we decided to change them to hamsters and mice. Besides being cute, my son wanted a game with his hamster in. The boulders ended up as walnuts and the grass was scattered with flowers!
So why did we call it HamsterJam? There are two reasons, the first is that the game obviously has the odd hamster in it, but the main reason is that we recently remade a game called Imogen. One level was called Hamster Jam. In this level you had a hamster, a tulip bulb and a very heavy weight on a rope. I won’t spoil the surprise, but be sure to play Imogen to find out!
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The HJ website has been down for ages, all kinds of crazy sql errors. It wont let you into the cage so you can view the site or DL the game.
Cheers, Stu
(The longest serving and original HJ fan)
Hi Stu – Thanks for your patience! I’ve been a bit rubbish with getting everything back up. It’s all there now, will see if I can get the rest of the microsites working now
Great stuff, cheers.
I was just wondering if you had any plans of making homebrew ports to other systems. DS, PSP or via app store on iPhone?
hi. just quick 1 to ask if their are any cheats for hamster jam. love to try some thankx
wayne
No there are no cheats for HamsterJam
I know the game runs a resolution of 1024×768 but is there any way to change it to 800×600 so that I can play it on my Dell Mini 9 (which only has a resolution of 1024×600)? Thanks, P
That’ll be a no then…
I dont even have the programming language that we used to make Hamster Jam :S
I’m sorry, it’s a fixed size.
I love HJ…had (and still own!) a Vic20 back in 1982 and Rockman was my favourite game of all time….ever. This incarnation is as addictive and plays exactly the same as the original. My only ‘criticism’ is that the ‘Popcorn’ tune in the game is, er, in tune! On the VIC20 it wasn’t!! Something to do with different clock frequencies between PAL and NTSC versions of the VIC chip. Apart from that, this game is a retro dream!