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.
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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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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Gods is a fantasy platform game developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade Software in 1991 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. The Gods have made an open call to any...
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Gods Deluxe is a free remake of the famous platformer by Bitmap Brothers. The game, developed by Jotd, features improved graphics, full screen hi-res mode and a level editor. It in...
Year: 2015 Genre: Platformer
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Pushover is a puzzler developed by Red Rat Software and published by Ocean in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, and SNES. The game, whose concept was created by Charles Partingto...
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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...
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Commander Keen: Aliens Ate My Babysitter! is the final episode of the famous series of side-scrolling platformers created by id Software. The game, published in 1991 by FormGen, wa...
Year: 1991 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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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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Titus the Fox is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Titus for a variety of platforms, from Amiga, MS-DOS to Atari ST. It was released in 1991 under the name Lagaf: Les Ave...
Year: 1992 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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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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Hocus Pocus is a fantasy platform action game developed by Moonlite Software and published by Apogee Software in 1994 for DOS. This game has nothing to do with the movie of the same title that was released in 1993.
Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer
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Lode Runner: The Legend Returns is the sequel/remake of the original Lode Runner created by Douglas E Smith. It was developed by Presage Software and published by Sierra On-Line in 1994 for DOS, Mac, and Windows 3.
Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer
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