I'm going to assume its has to do with horrible responsiveness from the controls, and not that he can't see a fence.

And yes, why is jumping outdoors propelled by springs, and jumping indoors propelled by gas emissions?

Yeah I was waiting for the bat. Never played this in my life. Do I play too many video games?

Yeah but dud 2600 Smurfette flash her titties?

Besides the bat is in the Coleco version, just on the higher difficulty levels.

Ravage the land from dusk until dawwwn, I''ll place random fences and won't mow my lawwwwn!!!

It's clearly Honky Tonk Smurf.

He has sideburns. Hence he is Douchy Smurf.

Zombie Smurf.

Not all of Papa Smurf's experiments were successes...

That can't be entirely true. There were games like Jungle Hunt and Moon Patrol that were doing side-scrolling before this, surely.

Defender counts as a side scroller. You can fly but it's still a scroller.

Jungle Hunt and Moon Patrol both released 1982, so they were simultaneous I guess. As for Defender, not the same thing of course.

There is no scrolling in this game, therefore it is not a sidescroller!!!! The first sidescrolling game where you jump is Jump Bug! It is actually a really fun game, though jumping is involuntary (although you can keep jumping in mid air as long as you're ascending, and you can speed up your descent too). There are also parts of the game where you scroll upwards. It was released in 1981! That is the same year as Donkey Kong! Dragon Buster (1984) is the first sidescolling game I know of where you can jump on purpose. It even has a double jump! And the first instance of the double-tap to run. MAME this shit, it's pretty fascinating.

ha ha ha ha ha ha no way