Jetpack Joyride is a 2011 side-scrolling endless runner action video game created by Halfbrick Studios. It was released for iOS devices on the App Store on September 1, 2011 and has been ported to other systems. It was released online as a Flash version on May 11, 2012; on Android on September 28; on PlayStation Portable (via PlayStation Network, ported by Beatshapers) on November 20 in North America and November 21 in Europe; on BlackBerry PlayBook on December 13, 2012; on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita (via PlayStation Network, ported by Big Ant Studios) on December 21 in Europe and December 31 in North America; on BlackBerry 10 on March 6, 2013; and on Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 on June 5. It was also released on PlayStation 4 on April 26, 2016.
The game features the same protagonist from Age of Zombies and Monster Dash, Barry Steakfries, who the player controls as he steals a jet pack from a top-secret laboratory, being a direct spin-off of the latter game. The game has been met with favorable reviews and has won numerous awards.
On December 18, 2020, Halfbrick Studios announced a sequel to the game titled Jetpack Joyride 2: Bullet Rush. The studio also released an official trailer of the game. Jetpack Joyride 2 was in soft-launch phase in Australia, New Zealand and Canada until March 2022, when it was pulled from App Store and Google Play store, with Halfbrick explaining that the game had "entered a new closed phase of development for an indefinite period". The final game was released on August 19, 2022, as an exclusive title for Apple Arcade.
There is also a real-time tabletop adaptation of the game by Lucky Duck Games.
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