This article is about the video game move. For its real-world counterpart, see wall flip

Wall flip

A wall flip is an acrobatic move, similar to a back flip or back tuck done while running up a wall.-Variations:*1 Step Wall FlipThis is the first wallflip variation, and is the easieast...

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A wall jump is a technique players can execute in several video games.

Technique

The basic premise of a wall jump is that the player jumps into a wall or another vertical barrier of some kind and pushes off its surface in order to start another jump. The player is sometimes able to change directions after a wall jump, meaning the player character can direct him or herself into the wall again in order to repeatedly wall jump and ascend structures.

Wall jumpers

This is a short list of characters who consistently have the ability to wall-jump:

• Mario
  Mario
  is a fictional character in his video game series, created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Serving as Nintendo's mascot and the main protagonist of the series, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation...
  
  
• Luigi
  Luigi
  is a fictional character, featured in video games and related media released by Nintendo. Created by prominent game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, Luigi is portrayed as the slightly younger fraternal twin brother of Nintendo's mascot Mario, and appears in many games throughout the Mario series,...
  
  
• Samus Aran
  Samus Aran
  is the protagonist of the Metroid video game series. Introduced in the 1986 video game Metroid, Samus is a female ex-army soldier bounty hunter usually fitted with a powered armor suit with weapons that include beams and missiles...
  
  
• Dante
  Dante (Devil May Cry)
  is the primary fictional protagonist of the Devil May Cry video game series published by Capcom. The character and Devil May Cry are one of Capcom's flagship game franchises, which has sold over nine million copies worldwide as of 2008 and currently spans four video games...
  
  
• Sonic the Hedgehog
  Sonic the Hedgehog (character)
  , trademarked Sonic The Hedgehog, is a video game character and the main protagonist of the Sonic video game series released by Sega, as well as in numerous spin-off comics, cartoons, and a feature film. The first game was released on June 23, 1991, to provide Sega with a mascot to rival Nintendo's...
  
  
• Prince (Prince of Persia)
  Prince (Prince of Persia)
  The Prince is the title given to the collective group of protagonists from the Prince of Persia series of video games. There are three different Prince characters in the Prince of Persia series. Each Prince character appears in a universe almost unrelated to the other Prince characters, save for...
  
  
• Ratchet (Ratchet & Clank)
  Ratchet (Ratchet & Clank)
  Ratchet is the main character of the Ratchet & Clank series of video games. Ratchet is tall, 15 years old and weighs 151 lbs . In the English versions of the games, Ratchet is voiced by Mikey Kelley in the first Ratchet & Clank and by James Arnold Taylor in all the others...
  
  
• Mega Man X
• Zero
  Zero (Mega Man)
  is a video game character present throughout the Mega Man franchise. First appearing in the 1993 game Mega Man X for the Super Nintendo, Zero has since been the star of the Mega Man Zero series and has played a supporting role in other game series such as the Mega Man ZX series.First developed by...
  
  
• Ryu Hayabusa
  Ryu Hayabusa
  is the protagonist of the Ninja Gaiden video game series as well as a player character in the Dead or Alive series, both published by Tecmo. According to the game canon, Ryu Hayabusa is a ninja and the leader of the that has spiritual, physical and magical ties to ancient dragons...
  
  
• Chun-Li
  Chun-Li
  is a video game character produced by Capcom. First introduced in Street Fighter II, she has since appeared as a player character in nearly all subsequent games....
  
  
• Fancy Pants Man
• Altaïr ibn La-Ahad
• Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Platform game

• Allows the player to reach areas which were previously inaccessible (i.e. too high).
• Some games allow the player to repeatedly wall jump up a single wall or to "bounce" between two walls in a narrow corridor. This can be used to climb walls or shafts.
• Can save time by jumping up walls rather than awkwardly jumping on platforms or other objects.
• Can be used to avoid enemy attacks.
• Can be used to access areas without their respective items.
• In some games, can save a character from falling down a hole.

Fighting game

In the list below are a few fighting games. Since these games generally feature more than one playable character, a wall jump (occasionally called a triangle jump) will be given to certain characters, primarily the smaller and more agile ones. Examples include Chun-Li

Chun-Li

is a video game character produced by Capcom. First introduced in Street Fighter II, she has since appeared as a player character in nearly all subsequent games....

 and Vega

Vega (Street Fighter)

Vega is a fictional character from the Street Fighter fighting game series. Vega is a masked, claw-wielding warrior from Spain who uses a personal fighting style combining Japanese Ninjutsu and Bullfighting, earning him the nickname the "Spanish Ninja".Vega first appears in the original Street...

 from Street Fighter II

Street Fighter II

is a competitive fighting game originally released for the arcades in . It is the arcade sequel to the original Street Fighter released in and was Capcom's fourteenth title that ran on the CP System arcade hardware...

 and its sequels.

Another instance of wall jumping in a fighting game is in Super Smash Bros. Melee where the characters Mario, Samus, Sheik, Captain Falcon

Captain Falcon

Douglas Jay Falcon, better known by his alias, , is a playable character in the racing video game series F-Zero. He first appeared in F-Zero, and has been called the poster boy of the F-Zero franchise. Nintendo first envisioned Captain Falcon as a flagship character to represent the release of a...

, Fox, Falco Lombardi

Falco Lombardi

Falco Lombardi, known as in Japan, is an anthropomorphic falcon or pheasant character from the Star Fox series of video games. He was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and designed by Takaya Imamura. Falco acts as the wingman and friend of title character Fox McCloud for the majority of the...

, Pichu and Young Link can wall-jump off solid obstacles by tilting the analog stick towards and away from a wall once rapidly. Wall jumping is very handy for recovery on certain stages.

Also of note is that in 2D fighting games that feature the wall jump, one must not necessarily be at the actual wall to perform the technique. As long as the character has reached the edge of the screen, he or she can bounce off it with a jump. Since most arenas in the genre take up more than the width of one screen, and many are depicted as out in the open and away from confinements, especially on the edges, this may result in a character wall jumping off an invisible barrier

Invisible wall

An invisible wall is a video game term for a boundary that limits where a player can go in a certain area, but doesn't appear in-game as any kind of visible obstacle, or as an obstacle that in reality could easily be bypassed, such as a mid-sized rock or short fence...

 rather than an actual in-game wall—and a temporary one at that, once action scrolls back past it.

Games with wall jumping

• Aliens versus Predator 2
  Aliens versus Predator 2
  Aliens versus Predator 2 is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game developed by Monolith Productions. It was published by Sierra Entertainment, and released through Fox Interactive for PC and Apple Macintosh computers in 2001...
  
  
• Batman
• Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
  Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
  Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, known simply as Castlevania in the PAL region and as in Japan, is a video game created by Konami only for the Game Boy Advance...
  
  
• Capcom vs. SNK series
• Knuckles' Chaotix
  Knuckles' Chaotix
  Knuckles' Chaotix, is a platform game spin-off to the Sonic the Hedgehog series, developed by Sonic Team, and published by Sega for the Sega 32X. The game was released in North America in March 1995, in Japan on April 21, 1995 and finally in Europe in May 1995. The game's only re-release since then...
  
  
• Devil May Cry
  Devil May Cry
  is an action game developed and published by Capcom, released in 2001 for the PlayStation 2. Although it is the first game in the series of the same name, the events in Devil May Cry are second in the series storyline's chronological order, taking place after Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening and...
  
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• Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
  Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
  is a Nintendo GameCube video game featuring the ape Donkey Kong and played with the DK Bongos. It was released in Japan on December 16, 2002, in Europe on February 4, 2003, in North America on March 14, 2005, and in Australia on March 17, 2003. In 2008 and 2009, the game was re-released in the New...
  
  
• Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure
  Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure
  is a Game Boy Advance video game based on the Dragon Ball manga and anime series. The game contains 30 playable characters , which is unusually large for a game of this caliber...
  
  
• Fancy Pants Adventures
  Fancy Pants Adventures
  Fancy Pants Adventures is a series of free side-scrolling Flash games created by Brad Borne. Two worlds have been released so far, World 1 on 14 March 2006 and World 2 on 9 January 2008. Borne had announced that after the 2009 Comic Con, he would officially start working on World 3...
  
  
• GunZ: The Duel
• King of Fighters
  King of Fighters
  , officially abbreviated KOF, is a series of fighting games by SNK Playmore . The series was originally developed for SNK's Neo Geo MVS arcade hardware, which served as the main platform for the series until 2004, when SNK retired the MVS in favor of the Atomiswave arcade board...
  
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• Kirby Super Star
  Kirby Super Star
  Kirby Super Star, known as Kirby's Fun Pak in Europe and as in Japan, is a 1996 platforming video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. It was first released in Japan on March 21, 1996, in North America on...
  
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• Kirby: Squeak Squad
  Kirby: Squeak Squad
  Kirby: Squeak Squad, known in Europe as Kirby: Mouse Attack and in Japan as , is a 2006-07 platforming video game developed by Flagship and Natsume and published by Nintendo and HAL Laboratory for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console.Unlike the previous Nintendo DS title, Kirby: Canvas...
  
   (Ninja ability)
• Kung Fu Kid
  Kung Fu Kid
  Kung Fu Kid is a Sega Master System video game about a kid that has knowledge of kung fu . This action game tests his skills as he defeats terrible enemies in order to save the day. It was released for the Sega Mark III in Japan as ....
  
  
• Lego Batman
  Lego Batman
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• I Wanna Be the Guy
  I Wanna Be The Guy
  I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game is a 2D platform indie freeware video game. First released in October 2007 by Michael "Kayin" O'Reilly, the game is not in active development, despite being listed as a beta...
  
  
• Mega Man X series
• Mega Man Zero series
• Melty Blood
  Melty Blood
  , is a visual novel and fighting game, co-developed by dōjin circles Type-Moon and French-Bread, originally released at Comiket on December 2002...
  
  
• Mega Man ZX series
  Mega Man ZX
  Mega Man ZX, known in Japan as , is a video game developed by Inti Creates and published by Capcom for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is the first game in the sixth series of the Mega Man video game franchise. For the first time in the Mega Man series, the game features both a male and a...
  
  
• Metroid Fusion
  Metroid Fusion
  , also known as Metroid 4, is an action-adventure video game published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It was released in North America, Europe, and Australia in November 2002, and in Japan in February 2003. The game is the fourth main installment in the Metroid series...
  
  
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
  Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
  Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, known as in Japan, is a first-person, action-adventure video game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the GameCube video game console. It is the seventh game in the Metroid series, a direct sequel to Metroid Prime, and the first game in the series with...
  
  
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
  Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
  Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a first-person action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. It is the tenth game in the Metroid series, and the final entry in the Metroid Prime trilogy—excluding two spin-off titles. It was released in...
  
  
• Metroid: Zero Mission
  Metroid: Zero Mission
  is an action-adventure video game developed by Nintendo R&D1 for the Game Boy Advance handheld console. It was published by Nintendo in North America in February 2004, in Australia in March 2004, in Europe in April 2004, and in Japan in May 2004. It is the sixth installment of the Metroid series,...
  
  
• Mirror's Edge
  Mirror's Edge
  Mirror's Edge is a single-player first person action-adventure video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts. The game was announced on July 10, 2007, and was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2008. A Microsoft Windows version was released...
  
  
• N
• New Super Mario Bros.
  New Super Mario Bros.
  is a side-scrolling platform video game published and developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. The game was released in North America and Japan in May 2006 and in Australia and Europe in June 2006...
  
  
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii
  New Super Mario Bros. Wii
  is a 2009 side-scrolling platform video game published and developed by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. The game was released on November 12, 2009 in Australia, November 15, 2009 in North America, November 20, 2009 in Europe and December 3, 2009 in Japan...
  
  
• Ninja Gaiden
  Ninja Gaiden
  is a series of video games by Tecmo featuring the ninja Ryu Hayabusa as its protagonist. The series was originally known as in Japan. The word "gaiden" in the North American Ninja Gaiden title means "side-story" in Japanese, even though the Ninja Gaiden series is not a spinoff of a previous series...
  
  
• Ōkami
  Okami
  is an action-adventure video game developed by Clover Studio and published by Capcom. It was released for Sony's PlayStation 2 video game console in 2006 in Japan and North America, and 2007 in Europe and Australia...
  
  
• Prince of Persia
  Prince of Persia
  Prince of Persia is a platform game, originally developed by Jordan Mechner and released in 1989 for the Apple II, that represented a great leap forward in the quality of animation seen in video games....
  
  
• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
• Rastan Saga
• Red Ninja: End of Honor
  Red Ninja: End Of Honor
  Red Ninja: End of Honor, known in Japan as , is a 2005 video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox platforms, created in a collaboration between the game developer Tranji Studios and the film writer Shinsuke Sato. It was published overseas by Vivendi Games...
  
  
• Ratchet and Clank
• Shadow Complex
  Shadow Complex
  Shadow Complex is a platform-adventure video game developed by Chair Entertainment in association with Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios for Xbox Live Arcade, and is powered by Unreal Engine 3...
  
  
• Shrek
  Shrek (video game)
  Shrek is a video game based on the first installment in the popular movie series. It was released exclusively as an Xbox launch title on Wednesday, November 14, 2001.This is the first Shrek video game to be rated T for Teen by the ESRB...
  
  
• Sonic Adventure
  Sonic Adventure
  is a 1999 platform video game developed by Sonic Team and released on December 23, 1998, in Japan by Sega for the Dreamcast. One of its development titles was Sonic RPG...
  
  
• Sonic Heroes
  Sonic Heroes
  is a 2004 platforming single-player/multiplayer video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series developed by Sonic Team USA. It is the first multiplatform title in the Sonic series, developed for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox and released in Japan in December 2003, in North America in...
  
  
• Sonic the Hedgehog
  Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 game)
  Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2006 platform video game for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 that was made to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise...
  
  
• Sonic Unleashed
  Sonic Unleashed
  Sonic Unleashed , is a video game and the 11th installment in the Sonic the Hedgehog series developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for multiple platforms...
  
  
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
  SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
  SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a video game based on the animated comedy series of the same name. The game was released for the Playstation 2 and Xbox consoles as well as for Microsoft Windows. The player attempts to defend Bikini Bottom from an invasion of robots created by...
  
  
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Game
• Tomb Raider: Anniversary
• S4 League
  S4 League
  S4 League is a third-person shooter multiplayer game developed by Pentavision and published by Neowiz Games in 2007. It is hosted exclusively in Korea by Pmang. It's also hosted in Europe and North America since 2008 by Alaplaya. A sequel, S4: Dark Lightning, has been announced and released.-...
  
  
• Strider
  Strider (arcade game)
  Strider, released in Japan as is a 1989 side-scrolling platform game released for the CP System arcade hardware by Capcom. It became one of Capcom's early hits before Street Fighter II, revered for its innovative gameplay and multilingual voice clips during cutscenes .-Plot: Strider is set in a...
  
  
• Street Fighter II
  Street Fighter II
  is a competitive fighting game originally released for the arcades in . It is the arcade sequel to the original Street Fighter released in and was Capcom's fourteenth title that ran on the CP System arcade hardware...
  
  
• Super Mario 64
  Super Mario 64
  is a platform game, published by Nintendo and developed by its EAD division, for the Nintendo 64. Along with Pilotwings 64, it was one of the launch titles for the console. It was released in Japan on June 23, 1996, and later in North America, Europe, and Australia. Super Mario 64 has sold over...
  
  
• Super Mario 64 DS
  Super Mario 64 DS
  is an enhanced remake of the 1996 Nintendo 64, platform game Super Mario 64, produced by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. The game was a launch title for the Nintendo DS, released in North America and Japan in 2004; it was later released in Europe and Australia in 2005.Nintendo...
  
  
• Super Mario Bros.
  Super Mario Bros.
  is a 1985 platform video game developed by Nintendo, published for the Nintendo Entertainment System as a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Bros. In Super Mario Bros., the player controls Mario as he travels through the Mushroom Kingdom in order to rescue Princess Toadstool from the antagonist...
  
   (a glitch)
• Super Mario Sunshine
  Super Mario Sunshine
  is a platforming video game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube. It was released in Japan in July 2002, in North America in August 2002, and in Europe and Australia in October 2002...
  
  
• Super Mario Galaxy
  Super Mario Galaxy
  is a 3D platform game developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It was released in most regions in November 2007, and is the third 3D original platformer in the Mario series, after Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine. The game follows the protagonist, Mario, on a...
  
  
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
  Super Mario Galaxy 2
  is a platforming video game developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It was first announced at E3 2009 and is the sequel to Super Mario Galaxy. It was released in North America on May 23, 2010, in Japan on May 27, 2010, in Europe on June 11, 2010, and in Australia on July 1,...
  
  
• Super Meat Boy
  Super Meat Boy
  Super Meat Boy is an independent video game designed by Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes and developed by Team Meat. It is the successor to McMillen and Jonathan McEntee's October 2008 flash game Meat Boy. Super Meat Boy was released on the Xbox 360 through Xbox Live Arcade in October 2010, on...
  
  
• Super Metroid
  Super Metroid
  , also known as Metroid 3, is an action-adventure video game and the third game in the Metroid series. It was designed by Nintendo Research & Development 1, programmed by Intelligent Systems, and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console...
  
  
• Super Smash Bros. Melee
  Super Smash Bros. Melee
  Super Smash Bros. Melee, known in Japan as , often abbreviated as SSBM or simply as Melee, is a crossover fighting game released for the Nintendo GameCube shortly after its launch in . It is the successor to the Nintendo 64 game Super Smash Bros., and the predecessor to the Wii game Super Smash...
  
  
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
  Super Smash Bros. Brawl
  Super Smash Bros. Brawl, known in Japan as , often abbreviated as SSBB or simply as Brawl, is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. series of crossover fighting games, developed by an ad hoc development team consisting of Sora, Game Arts and staff from other developers, and published by...
  
  
• Tetris DX http://www.tetrisconcept.net/wiki/Tetris_DX#Wall_climbing
• Tiny Toons: Buster's Hidden Treasure
• Toy Story 3: The Video Game
  Toy Story 3: The Video Game
  Toy Story 3: The Video Game is a platform video game loosely based on the film Toy Story 3. It was published by Disney Interactive Studios and developed by Avalanche Software , Asobo Studio and n-Space...
  
  
• The Specialists
  The Specialists
  The Specialists is a multiplayer modification for the first-person shooter computer game Half-Life. The final version of the mod is 3.0.-History:...
  
  
• Urban Terror
  Urban Terror
  Urban Terror, commonly abbreviated as UrT, is a free multi-player first person shooter game developed by FrozenSand. Originally a total conversion of id Software's Quake III Arena, FrozenSand released Urban Terror as a free standalone game in 2007 utilizing ioquake3 as an engine...
  
  
• Unreal series
  Unreal series
  Unreal is a series of first-person shooter video games developed by Epic Games. The series is also known for its exhibition of the Unreal Engine that powers the games and is available for other developers to license...
  
  
• Warsow
• X2: Wolverine's Revenge
  X2: Wolverine's Revenge
  X2: Wolverine's Revenge is a video game released in 2003 to coincide with the release date of the film X2: X-Men United. Revenge was the first home console title to feature Wolverine in a starring role since 1994; he had appeared two years earlier in X-Men: Wolverine's Rage for Game Boy Color...
  
  
• I-Ninja
  I-Ninja
  I-Ninja is an action video game developed by Argonaut Games and published by Namco. It was released for the PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube...
  
  

In other games, such as Super Mario World

Super Mario World

, subtitled Super Mario Bros. 4 for its original Japanese release, is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo as a pack-in launch title for the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System , and is the fourth game in the Super Mario series...

, wall jumping is possible but is not intended to be so. In these games, it is generally very hard to wall jump without some form of tool assistance

Tool-assisted speedrun

A tool-assisted speedrun is a speedrun movie or performance of a video game produced by means of emulation and using features unavailable to regular players, such as slow motion or frame-by-frame advance of the gameplay, and re-recording of previous portions of a performance...

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