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.
Pitfall!, also known as Pitfall Harry's Jungle Adventure, is a legendary platformer designed and programmed by David Crane. It was released in 1982 for the Atari 2600. In this ga...
Year: 1983 Genre: Platformer
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Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is a side-scrolling platformer developed by SEGA and released in 1990 for the Genesis/Mega Drive. It was also converted to 8-bit and ported to the SEGA Master System.
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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Rodland (aka Rod-Land or Rod Land) is a platformer developed and published by Jaleco in 1990 initially in arcades only. In the following years, it was ported to multiple other plat...
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Duke Nukem: Episode 2 - Mission: Moonbase is the second chapter of the Duke Nukem I trilogy. It's a 2D side-scrolling shooter developed by Apogee Software in 1991..
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Trolls is a cute platformer developed by Flair Software and released by Capstone Software in 1992 for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, Commodore 64 and MS-DOS. The game was based on the famo...
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Lupo Alberto: The VideoGame is a platformer based on the Italian comics Lupo Alberto (Alberto the Wolf). It was created by Digiteam and Idea Software in 1990 for Amiga and Commodore 64.
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Disney's The Little Mermaid for the NES is a side-scrolling action game loosely based on the 1989 animated film. It was developed by Capcom and released in 1990. At the time, Capco...
Year: 1991 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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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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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a side-scrolling beat-em-up created by Konami for the Nintendo NES and released in 1989 in the US. It was released in Europe one year later, togethe...
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Cool Spot is a jump and run platformer created by Virgin Games originally for the Mega Drive/Genesis. It was then ported to Amiga, Master System, MS-DOS, SNES, and other systems. It was released in 1993.
Year: 1993 Genre: Platformer
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Creatures is a platform shooter developed by Apex Computer Productions for the Commodore 64 and originally released in 1990. It later arrived on the Amiga and Atari ST in 1993. The...
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Mega Man 3 is the third game of the popular side-scroller platformer created by Capcom. When you grow up playing video games, sooner or later, you learn that none of your favorite sagas are safe from the passage of time.
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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