Net Yaroze Month: Down

In Net Yaroze Month, we are playing every Net Yaroze game featured on the UK Official Playstation Magazine, and ranking them all in the order we liked them. You may have other opinions as to the ranking, which is awesome.

To learn more about Net Yaroze, read our introductory article here.

Down is one of those games that really shines in multiplayer mode. Down supports up to four players, and if more than two players are playing then you’ll need to share a joypad (one player uses the D-pad and one player uses the Action buttons)

You start at the middle of the screen, which is constantly scrolling upwards. If you don’t move you’re gonna get squished by the spikes at the top, so the only way is downwards.

There are several levels you can jump on to: Standard levels, conveyor belt levels, bouncy levels, and spiky levels. The spiky ones will kill you. As will falling off the bottom of the screen. Whoever is left at the end is the winner.

You can play this single-player, but it’s so much more fun with friends. And there’s funky music too.

Reminds me a little of the Amiga game Base jumpers.

Game: Down
By: Team Parc
Genre: Action
Available on Euro Demos: 85, 108

Net Yaroze Month rankings:​

Best played in Multiplayer mode – Down goes in at 15

1. Time Slip
2. Blitter Boy
3. Rocks n Gems
4. Total Soccer Yaroze
5. Terra Incognita
6. Super Bub Contest
7. Robot Ron
8. Decaying Orbit
9. Psychon
10. INVS
11. Haunted Maze
12. Roller
13. Pushy IIB
14. Gravitation
15. [U]Down[/U]
16. Squeak
17. Adventure Game
18. Katapila
19. Sam the Boulderman
20. Pssst!
21. Pandora’s Box
22. Game Involving Triangles
23. Yarozians
24. Tanx
25. PingPing
26. Opera of Destruction
27. Video Poker Simulator
28. Shroud
29. Between the Eyes
30. Bouncer 2
31. Yaroze Rally
32. Sphere
33. Blockz
34. Technical Demo
35. Surf Game

Still to play:​

• Snowball Fight
• Arena
• A Dog Tale
• Mah Jongg
• Samsaric Asymptotes
• Hover Car Racing
• Clone