Soar through the air and slalom between pylons, but watch out for trees and hot air balloons!

This is a partial remake of Bob Whitehead's Sky Jinks for the Atari VCS.

How to Play

Slalom past 25 pylons as quickly as possible.

You MUST pass red pylons on the right and blue pylons on the left. Passing a pylon on the wrong side does not count!

Can you pass ALL of the pylons correctly and record a fast time? My personal best for Level 1 is 0:26.93.

Controls

• Left/Right to bank left or right
• Hold X or O to speed up
  • Mapped to Z and X on PC by default

Random mode is also included. In this version, the game keeps going until you pass 25 pylons correctly! How long will it take you?

Behind the Scenes

I'm still getting to grips with PICO-8, so apologies for the inevitable bugs and lack of polish!

Trying to recreate old Atari games has been a fun way of learning so far. I was hoping to have more than one level (plus random mode) here, but the process of transposing the original game's layouts is incredibly tedious, so I'm happy to just have the first level done for now.

I learned a few neat tricks putting this cart together, not least of which is generating the engine noise at runtime using print command and memory peeks/pokes to set the pitch based on the player's current speed. Fun!