Joust

aka: Joust: A Game of Combat, Action and Skill
Moby ID: 4059

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Critic Reviews add missing review

Average score: 71% (based on 10 ratings)

Player Reviews

Average score: 3.9 out of 5 (based on 9 ratings with 1 reviews)

Another bullseye for the Lynx porting legacy.

The Good
It is a rare port that makes you go back and double-check the original to see what is different, and Joust is one of those ports. Shadowsoft so nailed the Lynx port of Joust that at the time (1992) I actually found myself finding a local Joust to compare them. The graphics are a perfect interpretation of the originals. The gameplay is spot-on. The sound is 100% faithful to the arcade coin-op (it is probably digitized from the arcade coin-op).

Everything just feels like the original.

The Bad
Nothing. A cliche, I know, but there really isn't anything to dislike about the game whatsoever.

The Bottom Line
A classic game for any oldskool gamer, Lynx owners have it especially lucky that one of the best ports is for their system.

Lynx · by Trixter (8952) · 2003

Contributors to this Entry

Critic reviews added by Flu, Hipolito Pichardo, Wizo, vedder, Scaryfun, Alaka, Alsy, Patrick Bregger.