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{{Infobox video game
|title = Bounder
|image = Bounder c64 cover.jpg
|caption = C64 Cover art
|developer = [[Software:Gremlin Graphics|Gremlin Graphics]]
|publisher = [[Software:Gremlin Graphics|Gremlin Graphics]]
|designer = Robert Toone<br>Christian P. Shrigley<br>Andrew Green
|released = 1985
|modes = Single-player
|genre = [[Software:Action game|Action]]
|platforms = Amstrad CPC, [[Engineering:Amstrad PCW|Amstrad PCW]], [[Engineering:ZX Spectrum|ZX Spectrum]], [[Engineering:MSX|MSX]], [[Engineering:Commodore 64|Commodore 64]], Commodore 16 / Plus/4
}}
''''' Bounder ''''' is a 1985 [[Software:Action game|action]] game published by [[Software:Gremlin Graphics|Gremlin Graphics]] in which the player navigates a variety of courses as a bouncing tennis ball.

==Gameplay==
Courses are composed of numerous tiles, which are suspended high above ground. The ball must be bounced past walls and over enemies; coming into contact with either, or plummeting over the edge of the course, results in the loss of one of the player's seven lives.<ref name="su">{{cite magazine | last = Edgeley| first = Clare  | title = Arcade Review - Bounder| magazine = Sinclair User| issue = 52| pages = 40| publisher = EMAP| date = July 1986| url = https://archive.org/stream/sinclair-user-magazine-052/SinclairUser_052_Jul_1986#page/n39/mode/2up | accessdate = May 21, 2016}}</ref> Courses feature power squares, which push the tennis ball forward and allow longer jumps. These must be utilized to complete the course. Power squares are also used to enable the tennis ball to reach mystery spaces, tiles with question marks, which contain extra lives and bonus jumps which are used on bonus screens. Mystery spaces can also destroy the tennis ball, resulting in the loss of a life, through instant destruction or by freezing the ball in place while a missile flies across the play area and explodes.<ref name="gamer">{{cite magazine| last = Hetherington| first = Tony |  title = Reviews - Bounder| magazine= Computer Gamer | issue = 15| pages = 60| publisher = Argus Specialist Publications| date = June 1986| url =https://archive.org/stream/Computer_Gamer_Issue15#page/n59/mode/2up | accessdate = May 21, 2016}}</ref>

The bonus screen is accessed every time a course is completed, it consists of mystery spaces which increase the player's score when bounced on for the player to receive. 40 bounces are allowed on each bonus screen, though this figure can be increased by the player uncovering more from mystery squares during the preceding course. Once all bounces are used or all of the mystery spaces are bounced on, play moves to the next course.<ref name="gamer"/> Bouncing on all mystery spaces awards the player 10,000 points as well as an extra life.<ref name="zzap">{{cite magazine | last1 = Penn |first1=Gary |last2=Rignall | first2=Julian| author-link2=Julian Rignall | last3=Liddon | first3=Gary | author-link3=Gary Liddon | title = Bounder/Metabolis| magazine = Zzap!64 | issue = 10| pages = 20, 21| publisher = Newsfield Publications | date = February 1986| url =https://archive.org/stream/zzap64-magazine-010/ZZap_64_Issue_010_1986_Feb#page/n19/mode/2up | accessdate =May 21, 2016}}</ref>

==Reception==
{{Video game reviews
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| YSinclair = 9/10<ref name="ys">{{cite magazine | last = Maughan| first = Teresa| title = Bounder| magazine = Your Sinclair | issue = 7| pages = 29| publisher = Dennis Publishing | date = February 1986| url = https://archive.org/stream/your-sinclair-07/YourSinclair_07_July_1986#page/n29/mode/2up| accessdate =May 21, 2016}}</ref>
| rev1 = ''Zzap!64''
| rev1Score = 97%<ref name="zzap"/>
}}
''Bounder'' received a Gold Medal Award from Commodore 64 magazine ''Zzap!64'' as well as a ''Your Sinclair'' Mega Game award.<ref name="zzap"/><ref name="ys"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{WoS game|id=0000657|name=Bounder}}
*{{lemon64 game|id=356|name=Bounder}}

[[Category:Action video games]]

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