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Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship

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Pilot a fragile jetpod to retrieve scattered ship parts across twelve hazardous planets.

Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship was developed by Zippo Games and published by Tradewest for the NES in North America in September 1990; this is the original and only platform release, so both release_year and original_release_year are 1990.


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Released
1990
Genre
Perspective
Side view
Visual
2D scrolling
Size
256.02 KB
Rating
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About Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship

Solar Jetman - Hunt for the Golden Warpship involves a recovery mission across twelve distinct worlds. The objective is to locate and collect the scattered components of a lost spacecraft, which are defended by hostile forces and environmental hazards.

Progression requires the player to retrieve every part from a given world using a smaller craft called a jetpod. This vehicle is used for exploration and to transport items back to a central mother ship. The journey is challenging, as the jetpod can sustain damage from threats and must periodically return for repairs.

Once all pieces from a world are secured, the mother ship advances to the next location. The ultimate goal is to gather all the components to reassemble the titular golden warpship.

Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship Screenshots

10 images
Title screen
Solar Jetman in the opening sequence
The mother ship lands on one of the twelve worlds
The jetpod leaving the mother ship
Heading off to explore
The jetpod has been destroyed
Solar Jetman climbs into a new jetpod
Dragging back part of the golden warpship
The crystals you collect along the way are rare and valuable and shiny
Shields Up, Mr. Sulu... we're under attack by some glowing blue orbs that can affect gravity!