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> I'm not sure if it was intended that Tiki - despite being a flightless kiwi - from Taito's The NewZealand Story actually can fly with repeated pushes of up mid-jump, for example (although the presence of secret level design elements catering for it suggests it may be, and could actually be a huge easter egg considering it wasn't documented!).

Surely it was intentional. I remember very early in the game was a section where you fell just far enough to reverse your fall by rapidly tapping into flight (a very subtle tutorial), and several secret parts where a fall onto spikes could be turned into flight to a secret area.

IIRC, you could fly in the flying saucer too, but it was 2 tiles wide so many places could only be reached by flying "unassisted".

It's been a very long time since I played that game though! Arcades back in the 90s. Fantastic, difficult game.