Editing Jumping Flash! (section)

=== Retrospective ===
In 1996, ''Next Generation'' listed it as number 86 on their "Top 100 Games of All Time", saying it had created the genre of 3D platforming. They particularly praised "the vertigo inducing sense of height as Robbit leaps from platform to platform".<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Top 100 Games of All Time |magazine=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]|issue=21 |publisher=[[Imagine Media]] |date=September 1996|page=39}}</ref> In a 2007 review, [[Greg Miller (Internet celebrity)|Greg Miller]] of IGN condemned the graphics as "dated", having "jagged edges" and "muddled" colours, and said every aspect of the game is "weak" and that it had not stood "the test of time".<ref name="greg">{{cite web|last1=Miller|first1=Greg|author-link=Greg Miller (Internet celebrity)|title=Jumping Flash! Review |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121133322/http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/03/13/jumping-flash-review|archive-date=21 November 2015|url=http://ign.com/articles/2007/03/13/jumping-flash-review|work=[[IGN]] |publisher=[[Ziff Davis]]|access-date=5 November 2015|date=12 March 2007}}</ref> In a retrospective review, Andrew Yoon of [[Engadget]] praised the gameplay and innovation, saying the "grainy" and "antiquated" graphics did no harm to the vibrant atmosphere of the game.<ref name="Joystiq" />

Speaking in 2007, Rob Fahey of [[Eurogamer]] stated that ''Jumping Flash!'' was arguably one of the most important ancestors of any 3D platform game, as well as asserting that the game would always have a part in videogaming history.<ref name="eurogamer" /> Albert Kim of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' stated that the game provided perhaps the most euphoric sensation of video gaming at the time and described the first-person perspective as "hypnotic".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Kim |first=Albert |title=With the PlayStation, Sony Pursues Game and Fortune |url=https://ew.com/article/1995/09/22/sony-releases-playstation/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429045224/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C298827%2C00.html |archive-date=29 April 2014 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |publisher=[[Time Inc.|Time]] |access-date=1 December 2009 |date=22 September 1995 |url-status=live }}</ref> Maddy Thorson, the creator of the [[indie game|indie]] video game ''[[TowerFall]]'', praised the game, saying "something about the sensation of leaping through 3D space captured my childhood imagination".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Shuman|first1=Sid|title=PlayStation Turns 20: Our All-Time Favorite PSone Games|date=3 December 2014 |url=http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/12/03/playstation-turns-20-our-all-time-favorite-psone-games/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151221041105/http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/12/03/playstation-turns-20-our-all-time-favorite-psone-games/|archive-date=21 December 2015|publisher=PlayStation US|access-date=8 December 2014}}</ref>

[[1UP.com]] cited its first-person platforming as a precursor to ''[[Mirror's Edge]]'', despite suggesting that the jumping remained "woefully out of place" in the platform genre.<ref>{{cite web|last=Adkins|first=Nickolai|title=Leaps and Bounds: The History of the Jump|url=http://www.1up.com/features/leaps-bounds-history-jump|work=[[1UP.com]]|publisher=[[UGO Networks]]|access-date=28 May 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140612053335/http://www.1up.com/features/leaps-bounds-history-jump|archive-date=12 June 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 2007, Matt Casamassina of IGN ranked ''Jumping Flash!'' as the third-most underrated video game of all time.<ref>{{cite web |last=Casamassina|first=Matt|author-link=Matt Casamassina | date=30 January 2007 | title=Top 10 Tuesday: Underrated and Underappreciated Games |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115055154/http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/01/31/top-10-tuesday-underrated-and-underappreciated-games|archive-date=15 January 2016| url=http://ign.com/articles/2007/01/31/top-10-tuesday-underrated-and-underappreciated-games |work=[[IGN]] |publisher=[[Ziff Davis]] | access-date=1 December 2009}}</ref> After release, co-developer Ultra renamed themselves "Muu Muu", after the creatures featured in the game.<ref name="exact2" /><ref name="GamespyMuuMuu">{{cite web|title=MuuMuu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529142859/http://www.gamespy.com/company/706/706005.html|archive-date=29 May 2014|url=http://www.gamespy.com/company/706/706005.html|work=[[GameSpy]]|publisher=[[IGN]]|access-date=26 November 2014}}</ref>