1994 Titus
Platform: Commodore Amiga
As we crept into 1994, there were still very decent Amiga titles seeing release – and yet another promising looking title was the sequel to Blues Brothers – The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure. This time though, it was just Amiga users who would get delights of the famous duo – well actually, only SNES, PC and Game Boy users would ever get to play the game. The Amiga title would disappear into the ether and become one of the big Amiga mysteries.
However – that wasn’t before getting fans excited via a series of previews, but even reviews too. In 1994, Joystick magazine published a full review for both the Amiga and PC. The article described it as a lively and colourful platformer, distinct from the earlier Blues Brothers game but still firmly in the arcade-action mold.
According to the review, players could control Jake and Elwood through around thirty levels filled with quirky enemies and obstacles. A standout feature was the simultaneous two-player mode, allowing cooperation, competition for bonuses and even team mechanics like carrying or throwing each other across hazards. Gameplay revolved around jumping, throwing vinyl records as limited ammunition and collecting a wide range of bonuses—from hearts to restore health, to mini jukeboxes for invincibility and cakes that briefly transformed the brothers into the “Super Blues Brothers.”
Technically, the review praised the Amiga version’s smooth 50fps scrolling, colourful graphics, and fluid animation. The PC version offered richer VGA visuals, but less fluid scrolling. The sound effects and music were noted as promising, though incomplete in the Amiga build tested. So yes, a preview was basically reviewed it seems! Overall, Joystick still presented the game as a finished commercial title giving it solid scores and describing it as a polished experience.
Yet despite it seemingly being so close, the Amiga version of Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure never appeared on shelves. By 1994 the Amiga market was in steep decline, and many planned releases were abandoned, including this one by the looks of things. Whether the game was fully completed, and if a master version still exists, is not currently known. For many years, the Amiga version remained a mystery, discussed on various forums such as EAB like this post here.
However, it was put onto the radar of dlfrsilver (aka Denis Lechevalier) – the saviour of famous Amiga lost titles such as Liquid Kids and Snow Bros over the years. On the EAB threads at the time, Denis revealed in 2016 that he thought Eric Caen was the developer, as the information was embedded within the PC edition that had managed to sneak out. Denis recently confirmed that the music was by Michael Knaepen/Gryzor.
Then things went very quiet – that is, until in early October 2025, Denis got in touch with Games That Weren’t to share an extremely rare preview of the game to add into the archives. Denis tells us that he found a copy within a set of disks on eBay. Titus issued them in an extremely limited quantity, and were sent out to magazines at the time. The good news was that Denis was now trying to contact Eric Caen to see if anything more can be saved.
After finally getting hold of Eric, it was confirmed that he wasn’t the coder, so now Denis is moving on to other avenues to check. We’ll continue to update this page as more comes to light.
But for now, this is an incredible finding and hopefully the start of something much bigger. This gives you a few levels to play and some music too – a great glimpse of what looked to be a decent game overall and could well have been worthy of the 80+% it got in Joystick magazine. So, what are you waiting for? Check out a piece of history thanks to Denis!
With a huge thank you to dlfrsilver for sharing the recovery and saving the preview, Patrick Whittemore for platform correction and Hall of Light for the disk scan!
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It has to be noted that the musics in the Amiga version were made by Michael Knaepen/Gryzor.
Thanks Denis! Just added to the page!
The demo actually runs on an ECS A500 with 32 colors and sprite parallax. Looks very good.
Thanks Patrick! I just quickly took the platform from the Joystick magazine review, but you’re right – even the advert is saying it was for A500,600 and A1200!
I’ll update the page and reply to the socials to correct!
I guess a finished version exists, because the level shown in the joystick test is not in the demo disk.
Let’s see if i can join Eric Caen.
Completely agree – the screens in the press are quite different to what was featured in the demo. Fingers crossed Eric still has something! Good luck Denis!
Yes i hope so. The game needs An A500+ with 1mb minimum.
Since the demo is a huge 819kb file, there’s no way An A500 with 512k chip & 512k slow mem can run it, it doesn’t work.
I got a few things from Eric Caen. Unfortunately, he is not the Amiga coder of Blues Brothers JA. I have asked to Florent Moreau.
Let’s see how things will evolve….
That’s a shame Denis – but fingers crossed with Florent. At least you got some confirmation too. Just updated the page with the details as well, thanks Denis!