The Friday Ten: The top ten jump buttons of all time

List by Harvard L.

It’s common knowledge that ever since the jump button was invented, video games as a medium leapt forward in an enormous bound of progress. Also, they became art. Real art. While many games have claimed to “reinvent” the jump, it’s clear that the technique has a long and illustrious history which is best not forgotten. So the next time an established game developer claims to have included a jump button in their game, do congratulate them for producing something that we can take seriously as a work of art, but also feel free to use our definitive ranking as proof, that jump buttons are to videogames as colour is to movies.

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