This feels like a reference to Ducktales (at least in the games where Scrooge jumps on an enemy with his cane like a pogo stick)

Darth_Sirov said:

This feels like a reference to Ducktales (at least in the games where Scrooge jumps on an enemy with his cane like a pogo stick)

I think there has been a lot of platformer games which had a downward thrust jumping attack. To me it reminds of Zelda II, for example. There were more.

Thought it was a reference to Rolento's stick pogo attack from sf alpha series.