Computer Game Evolution
A journey through many years (and occasionally centuries) to find out who is responsible for modern computer and video games. May contain balls, Napoleon Bonaparte, robots, organized crime, and the US Air Force.
Computer Game Evolution
3.9 A Hop, Skip, and a Jump
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Tim
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Season 3
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Episode 9
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Apes on vines, frogs on lily pads, cats on cheese, and plumbers on ice – everybody wants to jump, but for now it is still optional.
Opening
Of horses and bikes
The jump button
Frogs.
Aliens? In our Heian-kyō?
An adjustable-height horse
Space Panic!
Donkey Kong, a drama in 4 acts
Amidar, and a different kids of jump
Got the Jump Bug
On Game Machine surveys
Frogs and much Frogger
A Donkey-er Kong
Miner 2049er
Tripping over in Aztec
Pitfall Harry, I presume
Jungle Kin- no, Hunt
Dig or Dug?
Moon Patrol
Let's Joust
A Rip Off intermission
Cuss like Q*bert
Doesn't sound Arabian
Ikegami Tsushinki burns the ape
Roc'n Rope
From miners to Mountain King
The OSHA threat
Track & Field
Another Aztec Challenge
Synapse lets the cats out
Lode Runner and the Mystery of Child Labour
Spelunker goes deep
The many doors of Elevator Action, and Mappy
Mario has a brother?
A wrap-up full of treasure