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.
Parasol Stars, also known as Parasol Stars: The Story of Rainbow Islands II - or if you prefer, The Story of Bubble Bobble III - is an arcade by Taito. The title is quite strange because there was no "Story of Bubble Bobble I".
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Head Over Heels is an isometric action platformer game created by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond and published by Ocean Software. Originally released on Commodore 64 and other 8-bi...
Year: 1989 Genre: Platformer
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Flood is a side-scrolling platformer created by Bullfrog originally for the Amiga and then ported to Atari ST. The game was published in 1990 by Electronic Arts. The main author of...
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Hudson Hawk is a platform game developed by Special FX for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum. It is based on the film of the same name with Bruce Willis. It was released in 1991 and published by Ocean Software.
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Chuck Rock is a prehistoric platformer created by Core Design for the Amiga and released in 1991. The same year it was released for the Atari ST. The game is in no way meant to be ...
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Super Methane Bros is a single screen platformer arcade created by Apache Software for the Amiga and released in 1994. Apache Software, which previously had programmed the CD32 ver...
Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer
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Putty is a 2D action platformer created by System 3 and produced by Mark Cale, known for The Last Ninja. It was published in 1992 for the Amiga. One year later it was ported to A...
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Yo! Joe! Beat the Ghosts is a two-player platform game created initially for the Amiga by Scipio, a small company. It was published by Hudson Soft/Blue Byte in 1993 and also ported to DOS.
Year: 1993 Genre: Platformer
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Rodland (aka Rod-Land or Rod Land) is a platformer developed and published by Jaleco in 1990 initially in arcades only. In the following years, it was ported to multiple other plat...
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Rainbow Islands is the sequel to Bubble Bobble and was developed and published by Taito in 1987 for arcades only. It would remain a coin-op until 1990 when it was ported to the Amiga, Commodore 64, and other home platforms.
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Santa's Xmas Caper is an excellent little platformer with Santa as the main character, developed and published by Zeppelin Games in December 1992. The game was released for MS-DOS and Amiga.
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Wonder Boy in Monster Land is the second game in the famous series of 2d platformers created by SEGA. Released originaly as an arcade in 1986, the game was ported to Master System ...
Year: 1989 Genre: Platformer
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Impossible Mission II is the sequel to the first Impossible Mission game. It was developed by Novatrade Software and published by Epyx in 1988 for the Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64, and others.
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Batman: The Movie (or, more simply, Batman) is an action game based on the 1989 Batman film directed by Tim Burton. Developed by Ocean Software, it was released in 1989 for the Ami...
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