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Best platformer games - Page 2

Platform games, or platformers, a simple concept of moving your character through a side-view environment, became a hit with Donkey Kong in 1981.

Prehistorik dosamiga

Prehistorik is a side-scrolling platformer developed by Titus Interactive and released in 1991 for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, and DOS. The game is inspired by the more famous Chuck Rock.

Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer

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Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow & The Flame dosgenesis

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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The Adventures of Lomax windows

The Adventures of Lomax is a platformer created by Psygnosis and released in 1996 for Windows and PlayStation. It is considered a spin-off of the famous game Lemmings. The artist...

Year: 1997 Genre: Platformer

2d cartoon hop and bop platformer side-scrolling

Mario & Luigi dos

Mario & Luigi is a simple but very nice clone of Super Mario Bros developed by Mike Wiering in 1994. Controls are very simple: Ctrl to Run, Alt to Jump, Space to Fire, Left and Right arrows to walk.

Year: 2001 Genre: Platformer

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Magic Boy snesamiga

Magic Boy is a side-scrolling platformer developed by Blue Turtle and released in 1993 for both the Super Nintendo and the Amiga. This colorful adventure follows a young wizard on ...

Year: 1993 Genre: Platformer

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Disney's The Jungle Book dosgenesis

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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Bubble Bobble amiga

Bubble Bobble is one of the most famous arcades ever created and a personal favorite of GamesNostalgia. This 2D cartoon action platformer designed by Fukio Mitsuji (aka MTJ) was released by Taito initially in 1986.

Year: 1987 Genre: Platformer

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The Great Giana Sisters amigacommodore-64amstrad-cpc

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

2d c64 original game clone commodore 64 hop and bop jumper platformer public domain side-scrolling

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 windows

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a side-scrolling platformer produced by Epic Games (at that time under Epic MegaGames). After Arjan Brussee accidentally confirmed its existence in 1994, it was published for Windows in 1998.

Year: 1998 Genre: Platformer

2 players cartoon multiplayer platform-shooter platformer side-scrolling split-screen

Rayman dosgame-boy-advancegame-boy-color

The first game in the popular Rayman series is a 2D side-scrolling adventure developed and published by Ubisoft. It was released in 1995 for PC MS-DOS, Playstation, Sega Saturn, and other platforms.

Year: 1995 Genre: Platformer

2d cartoon hop and bop platformer side-scrolling

Skyroads dos

Skyroads is a remake of the driving game Kosmonaut. Both games were made by Bluemoon, a small studio based in Estonia. The game was released in 1993 for PC MS-DOS only. Compared t...

Year: 1993 Genre: Racing

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Blackthorne snesdos

Blackthorne is a cinematic action-platformer developed by Blizzard Entertainment and originally released in 1994 for the SNES. The same year, the game was released for MS-DOS. The SEGA 32X and Macintosh versions arrived later.

Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer

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Toki amiga

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.

Year: 1991 Genre: Arcade

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4D Prince of Persia dos

4D Prince of Persia is an unofficial reworking of the original Prince of Persia game by Jordan Mechner. This remake was developed by Kirill A. Terebilov in 1994..

Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer

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