Back جامبينغ فلاش! Arabic جامبينج فلاش! ARZ Jumping Flash! Spanish Jumping Flash! Finnish Jumping Flash! French Jumping Flash! Italian ジャンピングフラッシュ! Japanese Jumping Flash! LLD Jumping Flash! Russian 跳闪！ 阿罗哈男爵惊恐大作战之卷 Chinese
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| Developer(s) | Exact Ultra[a] |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| Director(s) | Koji Tada |
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| Artist(s) | Kazuma Shirasaki |
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| Composer(s) | Takeo Miratsu |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation |
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| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Jumping Flash![b] is a 1995 platform video game developed by Exact and Ultra and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It was originally released on April 28, 1995 in Japan, September 29, 1995 in PAL territories as well as November 2, 1995 in North America.
Presented in a first-person perspective, the game follows a robotic rabbit named "Robbit" as he searches for missing jet pods scattered by the game's astrophysicist antagonist character Baron Aloha. Robbit must explore each section of Crater Planet to retrieve all of the jet pods, stop Aloha and save the world from being destroyed. The game was designed as a technology demonstrator for the PlayStation console and was revealed in early 1994 under the provisional title of "Spring Man". Jumping Flash! utilizes much of the game engine used in Geograph Seal, an earlier game by Exact for the Sharp X68000 home computer.
Jumping Flash! has been described as an ancestor of, as well as an early showcase for, 3D graphics in console gaming. It was generally well received by critics, who praised its graphics and unique 3D platforming gameplay, but it was eventually overshadowed by later 3D platformers of the fifth console generation. Jumping Flash! spawned two sequels: Jumping Flash! 2 and Robbit Mon Dieu. It received positive reviews at the time of release, and made an appearance in Next Generation's "Top 100 Games of All Time" just one year after. The game was described as the third-most underrated video game of all time by Matt Casamassina of IGN in 2007. It holds the Guinness World Record as the "first platform video game in true 3D".
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