There are a few enemies, but they can be defeated by simply tossing beans at them. The first screen is fairly simple, you just have to climb to the top of the beanstalk. The first time through the game skips from screen one right to screen four. You do not get to play each screen at first, they are added on as you progress through the game. There are five screens to master if you want to help Jack in his mission. This game plays a lot like Donkey Kong except that the controls are not quite as smooth. Jack The GiantKiller was the first of three games on that hardware, the others were Zzyzzyxx and Naughty Boy. So they bought 5000 arcade boards from a Japanese manufacturer ( Jaleco), and set out to develop a line of raster games to run on their new (purchased) platform. Cinematronics was already well known for their high quality vector titles such as Space Wars and Star Castle, but vector games were on the way out due to the high cost of vector equipment, and the many problems associated with them. ![]() Jack The Giantkiller was an old arcade game released by Cinematronics way back in 1982.
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