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.
Prince of Persia is a fantasy cinematic 2D platformer originally developed and published by Brøderbund and designed by Jordan Mechner. It was initially released in 1989 for the Apple II.
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle is the fourth game in the Commander Keen series and the first in the second series "Goodbye, Galaxy". Developed by idSoftware, it was released in 1991 for MS-DOS.
Year: 1991 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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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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Commander Keen: Keen Dreams is a platform game developed by id Software. The game is known also as Commander Keen 3.5, since its events take place after Commander Keen 3: Keen Mus...
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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The Lion King is the video game adaptation of the Disney movie with the same title. It was developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment in 1994. ...
Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer
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The New Zealand Story is one of the most famous arcades created by Taito. It was released as a coin-op in 1988. Many home computer versions, including Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum, were released in 1989.
Year: 1989 Genre: Platformer
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Bomb Jack is an arcade platformer created by Tehkan (later known as Tecmo) and released in 1984. The game was designed by Michitaka Tsuruta and Kazutoshi Ueda (also known for the arcades Lady Bug and Mr.
Year: 1988 Genre: Platformer
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Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame is the sequel to the original Prince of Persia. It was developed and published by Brøderbund Software and it was released in 1993. T...
Year: 1993 Genre: Platformer
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All New World of Lemmings is the third entry into the Lemmings franchise. It was developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis in 1994 for Amiga and DOS. All New World of Lemmings (a.
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Trolls is a cute platformer developed by Flair Software and released by Capstone Software in 1992 for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, Commodore 64 and MS-DOS. The game was based on the famo...
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die is the third episode in the Invasion of the Vorticons series and was developed by id Software. It was published by Apogee in 1990 for DOS. Commander...
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars is the first in the franchise of side scrollers of the same name, developed by id Software. The game was published by Apogee Software in 1990 for DOS.
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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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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