When did you first jump?

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RavingPenguin

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A spiderman game for the original gameboy. I was like 4 years old, it was also the first game I played.
 

The_ModeRazor

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Prince of Persia II, I think.
Well, it wasn't the first jump in the game, but when I took that leap of faith hoping to catch the ship...
My destiny was clear.
 

Stryc9

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The_ModeRazor said:
Prince of Persia II, I think.
Well, it wasn't the first jump in the game, but when I took that leap of faith hoping to catch the ship...
My destiny was clear.
Mine is just a bit earlier than this...in the original Prince of Persia. I only had the demo for the longest time but back when that game out it had all the best looking animation in any game.

Oh, and that boat in Prince II, there was really only two ways to screw that up, wait until the boat was too far to jump or jump off the pier too soon. The bit with the quicksand after that on the deserted island was a bigger pain than the boat. In my opinion, if any game ever scaled difficulty to a perfect degree it would have to be Prince of Persia II
 

Godlikebuthumble

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Oh god... I seriously don't remember whether Karate Fighter on C64 even had a jump move, but I certainly didn't use it.
Other than that, the first VG jump I really know of was in the old NES Castlevania (don't ask me which one), about '88/'89-ish, me being seven or eight. Some kind of family party at a friend's, and she (yay girl gamers) had Mario Golf, Castlevania and frickin' Ice Climbers! I was soooooooo close to peeing in my pants, rather than leave that marvellous toy alone...
 

Airthey

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Ummm, I think it was the addams family game on a commodore 64 in '94, or something like that
 

squid5580

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Donkey Kong Jr. on the Coleco back in the 80s. I can't recall any arcade games that I jumped in back then. There must have been some though.
 

Steppin Razor

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Either the second Sonic game or a dos-based Prince of Persia game. I can't remember which one was first or even if it was an actual Prince of Persia game. Just about the only thing I can remember is that you started without a weapon and if you headed to the right at the start you got stuck in a fight, which if you didn't go and get the sword first would result in game over 5 seconds into the game.
 

jimduckie

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gee this takes me back ... pinball and pool my first jump into gaming ,but for actual video game it's pong