Space Hop

Space Hop was designed by Helmut Wimmer, a resident artist at New York's Hayden Planetarium at the time of the game's publication.

[1] In December 1973, Ellen Stock of New York Magazine recommended Space Hop and the other four games produced by Teaching Concepts as good educational Christmas gifts.

[2] In 1977, Pamela Riley and Patricia Powers named Space Hop as a potentially positive influence on non-sex-biased career options for 4th grade students.

[3] In the same year, Paul Hounshell and Ira Trollinger called Space Hop "An interesting and well-designed game for junior and senior high school students.

They concluded "One class period is required to play the game but there should be time allotted to discuss various aspects of the universe and travel within it.