Thing on a Spring

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Thing On A Spring
Developer(s)	Jason Perkins Anthony Clarke Mark Rogers
Publisher(s)	Microprojects for Gremlin Graphics
Release date(s)	1985
Genre(s)	Platform game / Puzzle game
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	C64
Media	Cassette, Floppy Disk
Input	Joystick

Thing On A Spring is a side-scrolling platform/puzzle game produced in 1985 for the Commodore 64 by Gremlin Graphics. Gameplay involves controlling a character similar to Zebedee from The Magic Roundabout, through a toy factory while avoiding evil toys.

The game was written by Jason Perkins, Anthony Clarke and the graphics were by Mark Rogers, with musical score composed by Rob Hubbard. In his Zzap!64 review Julian Rignall exclaimed "The sound is unbelievable, I won't describe it but just wait until you hear it; words fail."

Along with Rockford from the game Boulder Dash, the Thing On A Spring character became a regular graphic element printed in Zzap!64's margins.

Thing Bounces Back was released as a sequel in 1987, also by Gremlin.