Platform games, or platformers, a simple concept of moving your character through a side-view environment, became a hit with Donkey Kong in 1981.
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Platform games, or platformers, a simple concept of moving your character through a side-view environment, became a hit with Donkey Kong in 1981.
Jill of the Jungle is an adventure platform game developed and published by Epic MegaGames in 1992 for MS-DOS. The title is the first part of a trilogy; the following year, the thr...
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Jill of the Jungle: Jill Goes Underground is the second chapter of the Jill of the Jungle trilogy, a series of side-scroller platformers. The games were designed to compete with Duke Nukem and Commander Keen.
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Jill of the Jungle: Jill Saves the Prince is the third chapter of Epic MegaGames' famous 2D platformer series. Do you like retro video games, but you're sick of the same old hero-s...
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Jazz Jackrabbit is a side-scrolling platformer developed and published by Epic MegaGames for PC. This Christmas Edition, also known as Jazz Jackrabbit: Holiday Hare 1994, is a spec...
Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer
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Disney's The Jungle Book is a platformer created by Virgin Interactive (aka Virgin Games) based on the 1967 Disney animated film. The team behind Aladdin (including David Bishop an...
Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer
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Crystal Caves is a sci-fi themed side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Apogee Software in 1991 for DOS. It was later ported to Linux, Mac, and Windows in 2014. It...
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Dangerous Dave’s Risky Rescue is the third of the Dangerous Dave series and was developed by Gamer’s Edge and published by Softdisk in 1993 for DOS. This was only the second on...
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Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Apogee Software and released for DOS in 1992. The game has many references to another Apogee title, Duke Nukem (one of my favorites), throughout.
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Duke Nukem: Episode 2 - Mission: Moonbase is the second chapter of the Duke Nukem I trilogy. It's a 2D side-scrolling shooter developed by Apogee Software in 1991..
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Released in 1991 by Apogee Software, Duke Nukem Episode 1 - Shrapnel City is a side-scrolling platform shooter. It introduced players to one of gaming’s most recognizable action heroes.
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Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes is the sequel to Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars. It was developed by id Software and published by Apogee in 1990 for DOS only. Programmed, ...
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Commander Keen: Aliens Ate My Babysitter! is the final episode of the famous series of side-scrolling platformers created by id Software. The game, published in 1991 by FormGen, wa...
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is a platformer by id Software, creators of Doom. Released in 1991 for PC only, it's the fifth game in the famous series of Commander Keen, and it's the second episode of "Goodbye Galaxy".
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Dylan Dog: The Murderers is a 2D action adventure officially based on the Italian comics character Dylan Dog, created by Tiziano Sclavi. The game was created by Simulmondo, Italian...
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