Comparison

Kurt Arcade vs HOP! 8

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Collection of simple games
  • Action games
  • Shooting games
  • Flying games
  • Puzzle games
  • Horror games
Features
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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.

About

HOP! 8

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Kurt Arcade4 screens
HOP! 84 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Kurt Arcade versus HOP! 8: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKurt ArcadeHOP! 8
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size260 MB6 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperKurt DekkerJames Baker

In-app purchases

None

Kurt Arcade

No in-app purchases

None

HOP! 8

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kurt Arcade free?
Kurt Arcade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HOP! 8 free?
HOP! 8 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Kurt Arcade or HOP! 8 have ads?
HOP! 8 shows ads; Kurt Arcade does not.
Which is updated more often, Kurt Arcade or HOP! 8?
Kurt Arcade ships an update every 3 months, and HOP! 8 every 9 days. Most recently, Kurt Arcade was updated on September 12, 2026 and HOP! 8 on September 8, 2026.

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