Sammy Lightfoot

1983 (12/31/1983)

Sammy Lightfoot is a game written by Warren Schwader for the Apple II and published by Sierra On-Line in 1983. It was ported to ColecoVision, Commodore 64, and IBM PC. A multi-level platform game (or "climbing game," as the genre was called in the U.S. in 1983) in the vein of Donkey Kong, Sammy Lightfoot follows the travails of a circus worker who jumps and climbs through a number of perilous situations.