Goat Trampoline

Goat Trampoline is a bouncing game drawn in the back of a school exercise book. Brenda is a goat with a beard and a great deal of spring in her, and she is on a trampoline. She bounces on her own; all you do is steer her left and right so she comes down on the next trampoline up the page. Some of them have a goat waiting on them. Land there and that goat hops on top of Brenda, then the next one hops on top of that, until you are steering a grinning tower of goats that leans when you turn and wobbles when it lands.

Every goat in the tower multiplies the points, and the trampolines do not stay sensible for long. They are strapped to cows and tractors, then to windmill sails, crane hooks and pigeons over the rooftops of a city. Higher up the clouds turn out to be sheep, who are happy to be bounced on, and higher still astronauts and satellites hold trampolines out for you in space. At the top of every page a super trampoline launches the whole tower onto the next one. The last page is the Moon, which is a trampoline, and the goats bounce it.

Miss a trampoline and nothing bad happens: the goats open the little parachutes they have had all along and land in a haystack, one of them stays behind for a snack, and the hay bounces everyone back up. You have three haystacks. A run takes a few minutes, it is quick to restart, and Brenda gets a new hat to keep after every one, saved in your browser along with your high score. There is also a button on the title page that says do not press. It is labelled clearly.