Sumo hoppers game

Sumo Hoppers has no plot and offers virtually nothing in the way of player progression; there's hardly even a sense of a persistent "player" at all. Its graphics are purely functional: lines just thick enough to see, players distinguished by primary colors. The physics engine, as far as I can tell, is incredibly simple.

Characters have mass, their feet have both zero width and infinite traction, and gravity is about a third as strong as it is on Earth. Two players are locked together with an inflexible bond; only their legs can move. First one to hit the mat — or a wall — headfirst loses.

That's it. The game was released in and updates appear to have stopped in It was an indie game before indie gaming had a name; it was released as the internet was maturing and DOS games were dying — in other words, into a perfect storm of obscurity. Its lone creator, Tuomas Korppi, hasn't made a game since. But Sumo Hoppers can count among its fans some of the most interesting and influential minds in the gaming industry. It's exactly in the spirit of the games we're trying to make: hardcore, ridiculous hot-seat sports games for two people on the one computer.

Korppi, the Finnish mastermind behind the game, considers it a high watermark of a past life. So maybe it is better that I do not mention the other ones.

He seems almost bewildered by his game's underground success. Screenshots from MobyGames. Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like. If you have trouble to run The Fight of the Sumo-Hoppers, read the abandonware guide first!

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Description of The Fight of the Sumo-Hoppers Perhaps the world's only sumo computer game, The Fight of the Sumo-Hoppers is an original and strangely appealing fighting game where you try to to beat your opponent in the sumo tradition: force him outside the tatami mat, or make him touch the ground with a part of his body other than his foot.

Captures and Snapshots DOS. In classical budo games you merely chose the technique. In The Fight of the Sumo-Hoppers you must design and compose the technique of small elements movements of the wrestlers foot and finally perform it. Perhaps the world's only sumo computer game, The Fight of the Sumo-Hoppers is an original and strangely appealing fighting game where you try to to beat your opponent in the sumo tradition: force him outside the tatami mat, or make him touch the ground with a part of his body other than his foot.

Gameplay is surprisingly complex given how easy it is to learn how to play. The wrestlers hold each other automatically.