Jumpman
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Jumpman is an early platform game with 30 levels, written by Randy Glover and released by Epyx in 1983. Originally developed for the Atari 400/800, versions were also released for the Commodore 64, Apple II, and IBM PC.
Jumpman was also the original name for the Nintendo character Mario in his first game Donkey Kong.
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Sequels
The disk-based Jumpman was followed by the ROM cartridge Jumpman Jr., which was available for the Commodore 64, Atari 400/800, and Colecovision.
In 1991 Jumpman Lives!, written by Dave Sharpless, was released by Apogee Software. However, since Epyx still owned the rights to Jumpman, Apogee was forced to withdraw the game. In 1998 Randy Glover became aware of the many fans of Jumpman and started working on Jumpman II, but several sources state that development has now stopped on this project. In 2000 Midnight Ryder Technologies[1] (http://www.midnightryder.com/) received the rights to develop Jumpman: 2049.
Levels
"Beginner" Levels (1-8)
Easy Does It
Robots I
Bombs Away
Jumping Blocks
Vampire
Invasion
Grand Puzzle I
Builder
"Intermediate" Levels (9-18)
Look Out Below
Hot Foot
Runaway
Robots II
Hailstones
Dragon Slayer
Grand Puzzle II
Ride Around
The Roost
Roll Me Over
"Advanced" Levels (19-30)
Ladder Challenge
Figurit
Jump-N-Run
Freeze
Follow The Leader
Jungle
Mystery Maze
Gunfighter
Robots III
Now You See It...
Going Down
Grand Puzzle III
"Randomizer"
The Randomizer option allows the user to play all the levels in random order. On the Atari 800 version and Commodore 64 versions of JumpMan, Randomizer always starts with Robots II.
See also
External links
- http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Platform/Jumpman/
- The Jumpman Lounge (http://www.classicgaming.com/jlounge/)
- Screenshots of Jumpman (http://home.arcor.de/cybergoth/gamesa/jumpman.html) on various platformsfr:Jumpman