Leaper
Leaper is based on the game Jumping Jack where you have to get to the top of the screen by jumping through the moving gaps in each level of platforms. In this version the idea is to reach the top of the screen…
31 December 1986
Leaper is a platform, released 31 December 1986 on Atari 8-bit.
What Leaper is
Leaper was released in 1986. It was published by Bug-Byte Software. It is available on Atari 8-bit only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Leaper is based on the game Jumping Jack where you have to get to the top of the screen by jumping through the moving gaps in each level of platforms. In this version the idea is to reach the top of the screen six times, and with each completion, a letter from the word Leaper lights up. You have an energy bar and this decreases if you touch the sides of the screen, don't jump up through a gap cleanly, fall down a gap cleanly or fall down a couple of levels. Once the energy bar is empty then you lose one of five lives. There are also various creatures moving along various platforms and if these are touched then you lose a life.
What it launched against
Leaper launched on 31 December 1986, within three weeks of World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel and Rebelstar.
Released around the same time: World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel, Rebelstar.
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When did Leaper come out?
Leaper was released on 31 December 1986 for Atari 8-bit.
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