Comments on: Pocket Treasures: Ski Safari https://unwinnable.com/2012/05/01/pocket-treasures-ski-safari/ Stories about Culture Thu, 03 May 2012 19:07:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Don Becker https://unwinnable.com/2012/05/01/pocket-treasures-ski-safari/#comment-35217 Thu, 03 May 2012 19:07:21 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=29978#comment-35217 I disagree that Canabalt was the birth of that genre, Brendan. SFCave for PalmOS and a number of similar helicopter Flash games did the same thing over 10 years ago. Canabalt did a better job of presentation and graphics, but it was hardly a new idea when it came out. Where Canabalt ramps up the speed to make the game more difficult, SFCave and the like narrowed the corridors you had to navigate through instead.

Not to take away from Canabalt, mind you, because it's excellent, but someone else planted the flag first.

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