Reviews

An average flip-screen clone of the much superior Green Beret. Graphics are colorful but sketchy, sound is essential and gameplay is not very varied. Moreover, you tend to die so easily that the game includes a "Continue" option as well - provided that you hit the "C" key before the extremely fast countdown reaches zero!

There's much worse, but there's also much better than this.

by Beam Software (Greg Holland)
Bazooka Bill must be one of the poorest Melbourne House's release ever, worse than Inspector Gadget. It's a transparent sprites ridden beat'em up/shoot'em up, with multiple weapons and whole armies shooting unavoidable bullets at you. This must be the reason why your energy disappears so quickly – it's a Green Beret that Jonathan Smith could have programmed blindfolded and using his feet. The playing area is organized in split screens, but unlesse you climb the ladders, when you get out you re-enter at the other side. Once you learn that this is the trick, after some screens you start running around even using the ladders. Most confusing.
1,5/5

1986 Melbourne House (UK)
by Greg Holland

A side flip screen in the same vein as Green Beret. Features some average looking cartoony graphics with lots of colorful backgrounds, but nothing special, the gameplay is worst part of the game, too confusing, filled with annoying bugs, bad keyboard response, and too easy to die due to drain of energy. I've seen better games in the 24 hours competitions. The best thing is the loading screen, and it's just good, not excelent. There are much better games around to be wasting time with Bazooka Bill.