Super Billy Boy

Rescuing a friend is the excuse; the appeal of Super Billy Boy is a run of pixel-art platform levels that each add a wrinkle rather than rearranging the same jumps. Traps and alien enemies fill the stages, and precision matters — it's the kind of platformer where a screen looks unfair right up until you spot the one route through it.

How to play

You move, you jump, and you work out the order a screen wants to be solved in, then execute it cleanly. Most early deaths come from momentum: players sprint into unfamiliar ground, meet a trap they had no way to see, and repeat the same run-in three more times. Slow down on new ground, learn what's there, then take it at speed.

Tips

• Treat your first attempt at a new screen as reconnaissance — losing it deliberately while you read the layout is cheaper than five rushed retries.
• Watch each trap or enemy through a full cycle before committing. Almost everything in a platformer like this loops, and a loop you've timed is a free pass.
• Aim for the near edge of a platform when something dangerous sits beyond it — the room to stop is worth more than the extra distance.

Who it's for

The level-by-level structure makes this easy to play in chunks: clear two or three stages and come back later. It suits players who are comfortable with old-school difficulty and don't mind repeating a section to get it right. Precise jumping wants a keyboard, so play this one on a computer. Parmesan Partisan scratches a similar retro-arcade itch with shooting instead of jumping, and Gelatino asks for the same precise timing in a gentler package.