The player controls Jack, a "space-age jogger", in a record production plant who must build up the ultimate music collection.

To complete each level, the player must collect all the musical notes while avoiding monsters, moving lifts and stalactites.

Jack can be moved left or right using his jet boots to hover or by ducking and sliding under fatal stalactites or monsters.

Jet-Boot Jack was one of English's first games to be converted to other platforms beginning with the Commodore 64, also in 1983, and the Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, and BBC Micro in 1984.

[2] Atari magazine Page 6 gave a positive review concluding: "Although on a now familiar theme the unique story line and good programming makes Jet Boot Jack well worth getting.