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Jupiter Jump

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Jupiter Jump
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My spaceship is about to crash. This is obviously a bad thing. I tap a button to smash the stricken ship into the floor of the planet below. As the craft disintegrates I bounce out of the top and the game begins.

Jupiter Jump is all about navigating through a tightly packed minefield. You grab points by threading through pulsating gates, and add to your multiplier by darting close to mines.

It's a pixel-edged one-tap arcade experience that scratches a particular itch. There's no depth, but there's enough to its simple gameplay that the lack of progression doesn't really matter.

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The core of the game is all about bouncing. You're pushed along by the momentum of that original crash, but tapping on the screen sends you plunging down to the ground.

You need to use this skill to miss the spiky explosives that hover around the levels. Passing close by the mines adds to your multiplier and flashes a 'near miss' message on the screen.

You score points by passing through crackling green gates. To start with you get a single point per gate, but as your multiplier goes up, you'll soon be racking up big scores each time you slice through the verdant energy.

Scoring points is the only aim of the game, and beating your previous best always raises a smile. Leaderboards let you gain bragging rights against Gamer Center friends.

Brief jumps

Some of the scores on the global leaderboards are almost unbelievable. You'll need to be patient and nimble fingered if you want to trouble the tops of the tables.

There's a level of polish to Jupiter Jump that you don't get with a lot of games of this ilk. The pixel graphics are bright and cheery, and the controls are simple and precise.

Yes, it's another quick-bite arcade blast, but it's a really good one. And if that's what you're looking for Jupiter Jump is hard to fault.

Jupiter Jump

A brief and brilliant arcade leap-'em-up, Jupiter Jump has enough in its rhythmic bounces to keep you going for hours
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Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.