Sky Hop (video game)
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Sky Hop is a 1983 horitontally scrolling platform game for the Commodore Vic 20
programmed by Nick Sharp and published by Your Computer
Magazine (Volume 3, Number 11, November 1983). Sky Hop was inspired by the arcade game Jump Bug
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Commodore VIC-20
The VIC-20 is an 8-bit home computer which was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the PET...
programmed by Nick Sharp and published by Your Computer
Your Computer (British magazine)
Your Computer was a British computer magazine published monthly from 1981 to 1988, and aimed at the burgeoning home computer market. At one stage it was, in its own words, "Britain's biggest selling home computer magazine". It offered support across a wide range of computer formats, and included...
Magazine (Volume 3, Number 11, November 1983). Sky Hop was inspired by the arcade game Jump Bug
Jump Bug
Jump Bug was the first platform game to include smooth horizontal scrolling. It was developed by Alpha Denshi under contract for Hoei/Coreland and released to arcades in 1981, only five months after Donkey Kong.-Gameplay:...
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