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by dereferenced 4862 days ago
Some differences from the original:

1.) You can't press right twice to stop, then up repeatedly to climb.

2.) You can't press various arrow keys after jumping to do a trick pose that gives you extra points.

3.) There's only 1 degree of 'turning right', not two. Same w/ left.

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4) There aren't those rock/?? things that when you hit turn into mushrooms/tombstones/??
5) There are no bare trees that catch fire when you hit them in flight.

6) You cannot jump by clicking the mouse.

Also, there was a bug (feature?) in the win 3.1 version where if you sat yourself under a seat, and then held the up arrow to slowly go up at the same time as the lift, and your score would rocket up by the 1000s.

We used it to increase the high score on our primary school computers from a measly 11 to several tens of thousands in a couple of minutes.

Otherwise, pretty darn faithful recreation, great job!

Hey! Thanks for the feedback. Right you are for 1 and 2 - maybe I will get around to implementing these :) but as for 3, try using the mouse. Movement is still a bit funny, and could do with some improvement so I might do that next.

Thanks again! Naturally, I encourage you to contribute with code if you are that way inclined :)