Knock up

Video game concept

Player(s) and possibly NPCs can somehow throw people upwards, usually as part of a series of chained attack. Commonly accomplished by swinging a weapon upwards, an uppercut or literal throw.

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Alternate names: Fling up, Launcher
Name variations: toss up, throw up

Castle Crashers

WIN 2012-09-26

Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves

PS2 2005-09-25

PS3 2013-01-15

X360 2013-01-15

WIN 2013-01-25

WIN 2009-10-27

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

WIN 2013-08-27

PS2 2005-06

WIN 2010-10-26

WIN 2013-04-30

WIN 2014-05-13

WIN 2012-08-29

Variety of a stun that may allow followup attacks with minimal ability to avoid them.

Commonly part of a combo attack, knock up, and follow up combo attack chain, variously either with the character jumping in the air with the target and continuing to slash them up there, shooting them while in the air, grabbing them (possibly with a [grappling] hook and tossing them at the ground), waiting for them to fall back low enough before doing some special move that's only possible on targets in air, and so forth.

See also: knockdown, knockback, stunning

Games by year

The first Knock up video game was released on June 2005.

Capcom, Hapa Games and Spooky Squid published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		8
Mac OS X		3
Linux		3
PS2		2
X360		1
PS3		1

Knock up

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