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.
Rastan is a hack & slash side-scrolling platformer created by Taito and released initially in 1987. The game was designed and directed by Toshiyuki (aka "Nenko") Nishimura. The her...
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Magic Pockets is a platformer created by The Bitmap Brothers and published for Atari ST and Amiga in 1991 by Renegade Software. It was also ported to PC, Acorn 32-bit, Genesis/Mega Drive, and other platforms.
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Rick Dangerous II½ is an exclusive level of the Amiga platformer Rick Dangerous by Core Design, released as coverdisk of The One Magazine in 1991..
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Premiere is a platformer developed by The 8th Day and released for Core Design in 1992 for the Amiga. It was also ported to CD32 in 1994. In this game, you are Cluth Gable, a movie editor who fell asleep while working one night.
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Lode Runner is a puzzle platformer created by Douglas E. Smith and released initially for the Apple II, Commodore 64, Vic-20, and Atari 8-bit in 1983. It's one of the most popular video games ever created.
Year: 1983 Genre: Platformer
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Disney's Tarzan (also known as Tarzan Action Game) is a platformer created by Eurocom Developments and published by Disney in 1999. Released for PlayStation and Windows, later, it was also ported to Nintendo 64.
Year: 1999 Genre: Platformer
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James Pond 3: Operation Starfish is a platformer created by Vectordean and released in 1993. Unlike the previous two games of the series, James Pond 3 was created for the Sega Gene...
Year: 1993 Genre: Platformer
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Solid Gold is a jump-and-run platform game created in 2013 for the Amiga by Frank Wille e Gerrit Wille (Night Own Design). Inspired by classic platformers like Rick Dangerous and...
Year: 2013 Genre: Platformer
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The Addams Family is a licensed platformer created by Ocean for the SNES, Amiga, Atari ST in 1992. It was ported to Sega Genesis in 1993. Ocean also made similar versions of the ga...
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Fantasy World Dizzy is the sequel to Treasure Island Dizzy and the third game in the Dizzy series. Dizzy is an action-adventure platformer created by Codemasters initially for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Earthworm Jim is a 2D shooter/platformer created by Shiny Entertainment originally for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and published in 1994. Earthworm Jim is one of the most eccentric...
Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer
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Toki is a platformer arcade created by TAD Corporation and originally released in 1989. Two years later, it was ported to several home computer platforms. I'm not going to lie. Until recently, I had never played Toki.
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The Great Giana Sisters is a 2D platformer inspired to Super Mario Bros (you might say "clone"). It was developed by Time Warp initially for the Commodore 64/128, in 1987, then ported to Amiga and Atari ST in 1988.
Year: 1988 Genre: Platformer
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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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