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.
Nicky Boom is a side-scrolling platformer created by Microids and released in 1992 for Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. The game designed and coded by Alain Lambin and Dominico Manfredi didn't reach great popularity.
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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The Running Man is the computer game adaptation of the famous 1987 sci-fi movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Developed by Emerald Software and published by Grandslam in 1989, this v...
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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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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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Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap is a platformer developed by Westone and published by SEGA in 1989 for the SEGA Master System console. It's the sequel to Wonder Boy in Monster Land and the third chapter of the Wonder Boy saga.
Year: 1989 Genre: Platformer
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Deliverance: Stormlord II is the sequel to Stormlord, developed and published by Hewson Consultants in 1990. It was originally released for ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC.
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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CarVup (or Car-Vup) is a platformer created by Core Design for Amiga and Atari ST, released in 1990-1991. The game is a sort of remake of the Jaleco coin-op City Connection (also known as Cruisin').
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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The Humans is a strategy/puzzler created by Imagitec Design and published by GameTek in 1992. It was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and many other platforms, including Mega Drive/Genesis and Game Boy.
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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is a platform action-adventure created for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was developed by Lucasfilm Games and Sculptured Software and released in 1992.
Year: 1992 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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Shantae is a platformer for the Game Boy Color developed by WayForward and published in 2002 by Capcom. It was later re-released by WayForward itself. The game unfolds in the encha...
Year: 2002 Genre: Platformer
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Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind is a platformer created by Accolade for the SNES and SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis, released in 1993. The game features the adventures of Bubsy, a bobcat with a penchant for yarn balls.
Year: 1993 Genre: Platformer
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Nebulus 2 is the sequel to the famous puzzle platformer Nebulus (aka Tower Toppler) designed by John M. Phillips and released by Hewson. The first game introduced a concept of pseudo-3d based on the "rotation" of the background.
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Mega Man X is a popular platform game developed by Capcom, released for the SNES in 1993 and ported to PC in 1995. It holds the distinction of being the first Mega Man game for the...
Year: 1995 Genre: Platformer
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