Jack the Nipper

Controls

Left − Right	Z − X	Joystick	↔
Up − Down	O − K	Joystick	↕
Jump	O + 0	Joystick	↑	●
Shoot / Honk	Z / X + 0	Joystick	↔	●
Pick up / Drop	1 − 2
Enter door	↵
Pause − Quit	H − Q

In order to shoot, you need the pea-shooter from the starting room; to honk you need the horn from the haunted house behind the secret passage in the museum. Both items can be used from either of Jack’s two pockets, but if both are present, only the one in pocket 1 takes effect.

While on floor or street level, up means walking towards the back of the scene, and in order to jump both up and fire must be pressed. When standing on furniture, however, up or fire alone both makes Jack jump. It is therefore not possible to shoot or honk there, but that would never be useful either. The two secret passages are entirely in the “furniture” mode, meaning that you cannot shoot in these locations.

Being in contact with any moving sprite, some stationary ones, or hot surfaces gives Jack (nappy) rash. Five seconds of contact requires a nappy change, and the fifth change spells the end of the game. There is no way to reduce the rash or gain extra changes (lives) in the game.

Map

The fifty screens in this game are connected in a few different ways. All left or right-leading doors or streets are two-way connections which Jack can simply walk through. The three streets are also circular, so that going in one direction takes you back to where you started after a number of screens. Alleyways on the other hand are one-way and take you to the next street simply by walking into them; but in conjunction with the streets, these too form a loop allowing you to eventually get back to where you came from. Doors in the middle of screens must be activated by the Enter key. Of these, some are one-way, taking you to another room or out onto a street, while others are paired, taking you from the street into a building and back to the same street. Both the entrances to and the exits from the two secret passages are one-way. The entrances work like alleyways and are entered by moving up into them, while the exits work like doors and require the use of the Enter key. When exiting these, you are dropped into the connecting room from the upper left.

Pranks

Dropping any of the twenty-two items while standing on anything above the floor breaks the item, which yields 1 % naughtiness. Some of the items have no other purpose than this as far as I can tell; the others must be used for their unique purpose first, which normally gives 5 %. As the bomb and the clay both are destroyed when used, the points for breaking these are awarded when they are used. The pea-shooter can be used to shoot any character, and the first twelve times this gives 1 %. All these actions will annoy one of the characters on the screen, making them chase Jack until he leaves the location.

	Found at	Use at	Naughtiness
Pea-shooter	Nursery	Any character (shoot)	12 × 1 % + 1 %
Teddy bears	Toy shop	Anywhere (break)	2 × 1 %
China plates	China Shoppe; Kitchen	Anywhere (break)	4 × 1 %
Battery	Police station	Just Micro (mirror)	5 % + 1 %
Weight	Jail	Hummo Socks (conveyor belt)	5 % + 1 %
Flower killer	I. Bloom	Garden right of house (drop)	5 % + 1 %
Fertiliser	Graveyard	Garden right of house (drop)	5 % + 1 %
Key	Lawn	Bank and Museum (carry or drop)	1 %
Soap powder	Bank vault	Launderette (all machines)	3 × 2 % + 1 %
Credit card	Master bedroom	Bank façade (ATM)	5 % + 1 %
Glue	Launderette	Gummo’s Chomping Molars (conveyor belt)	5 % + 1 %
Floppy disc	Bank	Technology Research (terminal)	5 % + 1 %
Bomb	Haunted house	Jail (drop)	6 %
Horn	Haunted house	All three cats (honk)	3 × 5 % + 1 %
Clay	Playskool back room	Playskool front room (drop)	6 %
Potty	Playskool back room	China Shoppe (drop)	5 % + 1 %
Bust	Museum inner gallery	Anywhere (break)	1 %
Pacifier	Museum entrance	Anywhere (break)	1 %

In the two inner rooms of the haunted house and the graveyard outside it, there are ghosts that chase Jack from the outset. As these can only be exorcised by a hit from the pea-shooter, it is necessary to visit the haunted house twice carrying the pea-shooter in one pocket in order to collect both items there.

The key is not itself used for any prank, but gives access to the secret passages leading to the haunted house and to the top of the wardrobe in the master bedroom, where the credit card is placed in order to be out of Jack’s reach.

Rating

Depending on your final naughtyness score, Jack will give a fitting assessment of your character:

0–10%	Goody Goody
11–20%	Namby Pamby
21–30%	Weedy Wimp
31–40%	Meddlesome Wimp
41–50%	Bothersome
51–60%	Prankster
61–70%	Trouble Causer
71–80%	Messy Menace
81–90%	Annoying Pest
91–99%	Mischievous Brat
100%	Little Horror!

Walkthrough

Pick up the pea-shooter
Go two screens to the left and shoot the ghost twelve times (12 %)
Go right, exit the door and drop the pea-shooter on the street
Enter the toy shop and pick up the two teddy bears
Stand on the counter by the door, wait until the store owner is far away, then drop the teddy bears and exit (14 %)
Go right, enter China Shoppe and pick up the two china plates on the top shelf
Stand on the counter by the door, wait until the store owner is far away, then drop the plates and exit (16 %)
Go right, enter the police station and pick up the battery
Go right and pick up the weight from the jail
Go left and exit back to the street
Go three screens to the left and enter Just Micro
Stand at the mirror in front of the counter (21 %)
Escape the owner by using the shelves and the counter, and exit
Reenter and drop the battery close to the door and exit (22 %)
Go right and pick up the pea-shooter
Go left twice and up the alley
Go left and enter Hummo Socks
Wait until the store owner is far away and jump onto the conveyor belt (27 %)
Jump off it as quickly as possible and exit
Go left and enter I. Bloom
Stand on the counter by the door, wait until the store owner is far away, then drop the weight and exit (28 %)
Reenter and pick up the rightmost flower killer
Go two screens to the left and up the alley to the weedy garden
Go left and shoot the aggressive ghost
Go left and drop the flower killer (33 %)
Go right and shoot the aggressive ghost and the stationary ghost, then pick up the fertiliser
Go left and drop the fertiliser (38 %)
Exit to the right and return to the left
Pick ut the fertiliser, drop the pea-shooter, pick up the flower killer
Go three screens to the left and enter the bank
Stand on the counter by the door, drop the fertiliser and the flower killer and exit (40 %)
Go three screens to the right and pick up the pea-shooter
Go two screens to the left and pick up the key
Go left, drop the pea-shooter
Enter the bank and drop the key on the floor
Enter the secret passage behind the radiator
Pick up the soap powder and exit the secret passage
Pick up the credit card, go right and exit the door
Go four screens to the right and enter the Launderette
Stand to the right of the washing machines, wait until the owner is even further to the right, then walk past the machines and exit (46 %)
Reenter, drop the soap powder from the leftmost machine and exit (47 %)
Reenter, pick up the glue and exit
Go three screens to the right and up the alley
Enter Gummo’s Chomping Molars
Wait until the store owner is far away and jump onto the conveyor belt (52 %)
Jump off it as quickly as possible and exit
Reenter and jump onto the desk to the left
Wait until the store owner is far away, then drop the glue and exit (53 %)
Go right and up the alley
Go four screens to the right and jump up to the ATM (58 %)
Enter the bank and pick up the key
Stand on the counter by the door, drop the credit card and exit (59 %)
Reenter, carefully pick up the floppy disc without entering the secret passage and exit the main door
Drop the floppy disc and pick up the pea-shooter
Go two screens to the left and up the alley
Go two screens to the right and enter the museum
Go left, drop the key and enter the secret passage behind the radiator
Note that the last jump in the secret passage is very difficult
After exiting the secret passage, immediately jump off the hot fireplace
Enter the door, go left and shoot the aggressive ghost
Go left, shoot the aggressive ghost and pick up the bomb from the hot fireplace
Go right and shoot the aggressive ghost
Go right, exit the door, and shoot the aggressive ghost
Go three screens to the right and up the alley
Drop the bomb outside the Launderette; ensure that the pea-shooter is in pocket 1
Go two screens to the right and enter the museum
Go left, pick up the key and drop it again
Enter the secret passage behind the radiator again
Exit the passage, enter the door and pick up the horn
Exit the door and shoot the aggressive ghost
Go three screens to the right and up the alley
Drop the pea-shooter outside the Launderette and pick up the bomb
Go two screens to the left and enter the police station
Go right and drop the bomb (65 %)
Go left, honk the horn near the cat and exit (70 %)
Go four screens to the left and up the alley
Go right and up the alley
Go four screens to the right and pick up the floppy disc
Go two screens to the right and enter the house
Go left into the living room, honk near the cat and exit to the right (75 %)
Drop the horn and the floppy disc
Go right into the kitchen and pick up the two china plates
Go two screens left, break the china plates and exit to the right (77 %)
Pick up the horn and the floppy disc and enter the door
Exit the door, go two screens left and up the alley
Go two screens to the right and enter Technology Research
Wait until the store owner is far away, then jump onto the terminal (82 %)
Exit, reenter, break the floppy disc and exit again (83 %)
Go left and up the alley
Go three screens to the right and enter the Playskool
Enter the door to the back room and pick up the clay
Honk the horn near the cat and exit the door (88 %)
Go two screens to the right and up the alley
Enter Gummo’s Chomping Molars, break the horn and exit (89 %)
Go right and up the alley
Go three screens to the right and enter the Playskool
Drop the clay and enter the door (95 %)
Pick up the potty and exit
Go left and pick up the pea-shooter outside the Launderette
Go three screens to the left and enter China Shoppe
Drop the potty (100 %)
At this point, the game ends; the following describes how to compensate for up to 5 missing percentage points
Exit, reenter, pick up the potty, break this and exit again (101 %)
Go four screens to the left, enter the museum and drop the pea-shooter
Go left and pick up the key and the bust
Go right and exit the main door
Go two screens to the right, enter Just Micro and jump onto the counter
Drop the key and the bust and exit the door (103 %)
Go two screens to the left and enter the museum
Pick up the pacifier and the pea-shooter and exit the main door
Go right and enter the alley
Go right and enter the alley (again)
Go left and shoot the aggressive ghost
Go two screens to the left and enter the house
Enter the door and go to the right
Jump onto the bed and drop the pea-shooter and the pacifier (105 %)
The choice of final location does not matter, but the starting screen seems appropriate