DeceasedCrab plays Solar Jetman - Part 1 of 26

I cover a game by Rare? Well, now...

All maps by The Vic Viper.

System 1: Zandor

Planet 1 - Preludon

Diameter: 7

Gravity: 8

Map

There's a portal to a bonus level all the way to the left of the beginning? Cool beans. Collect all 10 gems to get a bonus.

If you've ever played Lunar Lander (or better yet, Gravitar), you know how this game works. Run around in the spaceship, shoot things down, and don't run into stuff.

There's an equipment piece here. Carrying things can be tough, since they will take you in the direction they're swaying. That's just for this planet, though...other planets have different diameters as well as different gravity.

The first piece of equipment is the shields for the probe. Hold Down to use the shields (you can use them as much as you want.) You cannot pick up items while using the shields, and you cannot use the shields while holding an object, so you'll have to be careful and take down any threats you come across beforehand. There are also other ship parts on other planets that you'll have to get.

Crystals give you bonus lives whenever you collect enough of them...so go for the extras!

To bring stuff to the ship, simply move into an item to latch onto it, then carefully take it to the ship. When you're directly above the entrance to the ship, the item will instantly detach and you'll be able to drop it into the ship. You can also fly as high up as you can, get above the entrance, and drop it down from there. It drops down slowly, but at least you can still drop it into the ship and continue elsewhere to find something else that you want to take with you to the next level as what you just dropped off slowly descends.

You need to collect all the fuel cells in a given planet in order to get off whatever rock you're exploring and head to the next level. You must find all the fuel cells as well as the part for the ship that's on each level before you can continue to the next one. If you need to see how much fuel your ship has, check out the big orange and red line on your ship. When it's filled up, you've collected all the fuel for that level.

Those green guys flying around are the enemies. Take them down with the bullets from your pod (or your gun, if you're outside the pod) and collect whatever they leave behind for bonus points.

Head into the wormhole when you've brought the fuel cell and the ship part back to the ship, then trigger the shields so you won't get sucked back in again as soon as you come out. Grab the Golden Warpship Part, then bring it into the Warp Zone to take the Golden Warpship Part back to the ship for safekeeping.

If you re-enter the large wormhole without the pod, you'll enter the Cyberzone. Collect all the gems and you'll get bonus points.

You'll be back above the ship. Get in there and it's off to the next level.


Before you start the next level, though, you'll be able to buy stuff with the points you have. The points are actually money, and the more points you have, the more stuff you can buy. You won't find a store after all of the levels, just after some of them.