Kurt Arcade vs HOP! 8
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kurt Arcade
Discover a collection of diverse, simpler games in one convenient app. Explore various genres including action, puzzles, and shooting games with a wide range of themes.
- Collection of simple games
- Action games
- Shooting games
- Flying games
- Puzzle games
- Horror games
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Lots of my smaller simpler games, accumulated all into one simple place for you!! There's some action, some shooting, some flying, some puzzles, some horror, monkeys, lasers, bombs... a little bit of everything.
HOP! 8
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Boot up the PIXELON 64. Type LOAD "HOP",8,1 — or just tap SHIFT+RUN/STOP, the way you did when you were a kid — and hop your way home. HOP! 8-Bit is a lovingly recreated retro arcade for iPhone and iPad. Five lanes of traffic. A river full of logs and turtles. Five home slots at the top. One frog, three lives, and a stopwatch that never stops running. ▸ AUTHENTIC 8-BIT LOOK The full home-computer experience — beige case, blue CRT, chunky pixel sprites, and a scanline glow that hides no crime. It boots with the familiar READY. prompt, complete with a blinking cursor. ▸ HOP IN ONE TAP On the real thing, you held SHIFT and pressed RUN/STOP to auto-boot the first program on tape. HOP! 8-Bit honors that shortcut with a big yellow button. One tap and you're playing. ▸ PROGRESSIVE ROUNDS Round 1 runs at 30% speed so you can learn the timing. Each cleared board speeds things up. By round 6 you're at base arcade tempo, and it keeps climbing. ▸ PLAY YOUR WAY Swipe up/down/left/right to hop. Or plug in a keyboard — arrow keys and WASD both work. Portrait for typing, landscape for full-screen action. ▸ SID-STYLE SOUND Every chirp and bloop is a square wave, synthesized live. No sample files, no bloat — just the sound of a real 8-bit chip. ▸ HAPTICS Every hop, every splat, every home slot filled — you feel it. ▸ THE PIXELON 64 An original creation — the PIXELON 64 is our tribute to every beige box that took over the family room in 1982. It runs PIXEL BASIC V2.0, has 64K of RAM, and 38,911 bytes free. Made by an 80s kid who missed the sound of a datasette. Enjoy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Kurt Arcade at none against HOP! 8's shown. Kurt Arcade also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). HOP! 8's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kurt Arcade ships an update every 3 months, HOP! 8 every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kurt Arcade | HOP! 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 260 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kurt Dekker | James Baker |
In-app purchases
Kurt Arcade
No in-app purchases
HOP! 8
No in-app purchases









