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    Default First game(s) to feature pressure sensitive jumping?

    Does anyone have an idea of what some of the earliest games were that featured pressure sensitive jumping? By pressure sensitive jumping, I mean that how high (or low) you jump is determined by how long you hold down the button. I can't recall if there were any 2600 era games with this ability.

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    Smurf on VCS had the double-press-stick-up jump. There's a game which uses the button for tha though, hell if I remember it now which one.

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    IMHO, Decathlon for 2600 (& whatever other systems it was ported to) sounds like it might qualify.
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    Probably have to look at arcades, sounds like something would have originated there, and then most probably by Atari.

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