This article was originally written for TheNintendoVillage.com, a website I founded and ran from 2018 to 2021.

Way back in June Nintendo dropped a cute little fitness app by the name of Jump Rope Challenge. It was fairly bare bones compared to something like Ring Fit Adventure, but was nevertheless a nice offering for people to get a little more active whilst they were stuck in lockdown.

Created by a few Nintendo developers at home, the app was offered free for a limited time only, with the little skipping bunny due to leave the eShop on 30 September.

However, Nintendo have now said that the game will stay on the eShop until further notice as more people are still discovering and downloading the app:

Thanks to all players of #JumpRopeChallenge for recording 2.5 billion total jumps! As new jumpers are joining, the free download will be available until further notice and will not be removed from Nintendo #eShop on 9/30. pic.twitter.com/P9g7dXmmZe
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) September 30, 2020

We found it was a great way to warm up for a session on Ring Fit Adventure and are glad more people will get the chance to discover it - especially as life has yet to return to normal!

Did you give Jump Rope Challenge a whirl? Let us know down in the comments!

Source: Twitter