Up ’N Down — Master The Ramp Jumps
0🕹 UP 'N DOWN — ColecoVision
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🕹 Game Name: UP 'N DOWN
📛 Alternate Names: Up N' Down / Up'n Down
📅 Release Date: 1983 (arcade), ColecoVision port 1983
🔫 Genre: Racing / Obstacle
👨 🏻 💻 Developers: Nintendo (arcade original by Taito / SDI) / Coleco (port)
👨 🏻 💻 Publishers: Coleco
🔢 Max Players: 2 (alternating)
⁉ Cooperative: No
🕹 Game Introduction: Fast-paced top-down racer where you dodge cars, push logs, and race to the flag.
🕹 Game Description: Drive a little car over branching roads and perilous ramps while avoiding traffic and hazards; reach flags to progress.
🎴 Game Play: 👉 🏻 Steer to avoid cars and oil slicks. 👉 🏻 Use ramps to jump between tracks. 👉 🏻 Collect flags to advance and score multipliers.
📕 Background & History: Early 80s arcade racer mixing driving with pseudo-platform jumps; ColecoVision brought sharper graphics to home players.
👓 Lonster's Review: Tight, frantic controls make each run addictive — timing on ramps is everything. Great pick-up-and-play retro blast.
🎉 Trivia: 👉 🏻 Original arcade used sprite scaling tricks. 👉 🏻 Some home ports altered ramp physics.
🐣 Cheats/Tricks/Easter Eggs: 👉 🏻 Learn flag spawn patterns to chain scores. 👉 🏻 Jump ramp at angle to avoid oncoming lanes.
🌟 Legacy: Influenced later top-down racers; remembered for frantic arcade pacing and signature ramp-jump mechanic.