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.
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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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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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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Rygar: Legendary warrior is an arcade platform action game created by Tecmo in 1986 and ported to several platforms. The game was released in fact for the C64, ZX Spectrum, and Sega Master System.
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Superfrog is a platformer created for the Amiga by Team 17 and released initially in 1993. One year later the game was ported to MS-DOS. With a lot of colors and nice animations, the game is totally violence free.
Year: 1993 Genre: Platformer
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Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is a platformer by id Software, creators of Doom. Released in 1991 for PC only, it's the fifth game in the famous series of Commander Keen, and it's the second episode of "Goodbye Galaxy".
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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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
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Released in 1991 by Apogee Software, Duke Nukem Episode 1 - Shrapnel City is a side-scrolling platform shooter. It introduced players to one of gaming’s most recognizable action heroes.
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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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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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Dangerous Dave’s Risky Rescue is the third of the Dangerous Dave series and was developed by Gamer’s Edge and published by Softdisk in 1993 for DOS. This was only the second on...
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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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Rick Dangerous 2 is the sequel to the popular platformer created by Core Design, inspired by the character of Indiana Jones. The game serves as the direct sequel to the original R...
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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