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Rocket jumping

Video game concept

A jump boost achieved with the use of explosives, commonly a rocket, detonated right at your feet.

53
games
16
platforms

Alternate names: Bomb jumping, Grenade hopping

Team Fortress Classic (Linux)
Team Fortress Classic
LIN 2013-08-12
Wrack (Windows)
Wrack
WIN 2014-09-30
Unreal Tournament 2004 (Windows)
Unreal Tournament 2004
WIN 2004-03-16
Star Wars: Dark Forces (PlayStation)
Star Wars: Dark Forces
PS1 1996-11-30
Unreal Tournament III (PlayStation 3)
Unreal Tournament III
PS3 2007-12-10
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GameCube)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
GC 2006-12
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD (Wii U)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD
WIIU 2016-03-04
Serious Sam Double D (Windows)
Serious Sam Double D
WIN 2011-08-30
Serious Sam (Windows)
Serious Sam
WIN 2001-03-23
Serious Sam (Xbox)
Serious Sam
XBOX 2002-11-12
Unreal Tournament (Dreamcast)
Unreal Tournament
DC 2001-03-14
Unreal Tournament 2003 (Windows)
Unreal Tournament 2003
WIN 2002-10
Implied: jumping, knockback, and unrealistic ability to shrug off explosions.

Note however that certain games allow rocket "jumping" even when the game has no jump functionality of any kind, commonly sending the jumper flying laterally at high speed.

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Parent group

Unrealism

Games by year

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The first Rocket jumping video game was released on November 21, 1991.

Valve, Nintendo and Midway Games published most of these games.

Related sites

Wikipedia article
Related trope at TV Tropes (Rocket Jump)

Platforms

Linux 16
Windows 13
Mac OS X 4
Mac OS Classic 3
MS-DOS 3
BeOS 2
PS3 2
X360 2
3DS 1
Wii U 1
SNES 1
PS 1
Dreamcast 1
Xbox 1
Wii 1
GameCube 1