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.
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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Impossible Mission is a famous puzzle-solving action adventure designed and programmed by Dennis Caswell, initially for the Commodore 64. It was released in 1984 by Epyx. The game ...
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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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Fire & Ice: The daring adventures of Cool Coyote is a platformer created by Graftgold and published by Renegade Software in 1992. Initially released for the Amiga and Atari ST, lat...
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Mousetrap is a platformer created by Microvalue for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit in 1987. The same year it was ported to Amiga and Atari ST. Somehow inspired to Mappy and Ma...
Year: 1987 Genre: Platformer
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Fury Of The Furries is a puzzle-platformer created by Atreid Concept and published by Mindscape in 1993 for the Amiga, PC, and Macintosh. The Gameboy and PC US versions were rebranded by Namco, replacing the furries with Pac Man.
Year: 1993 Genre: Platformer
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Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes is the sequel to Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars. It was developed by id Software and published by Apogee in 1990 for DOS only. Programmed, ...
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Odyssey is a side-scrolling platform adventure game developed by Unconscious Minds and published by Audiogenic Software in 1993. It was released exclusively for the Amiga. The game...
Year: 1995 Genre: Platformer
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Wonder Boy in Monster World is an action-adventure platformer developed by Westone and released in 1991 by Sega for the Genesis/Mega Drive. This fourth entry in the Wonder Boy seri...
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Hard 'n' Heavy is a platform action game developed by Rainbow Arts and published by reLine in 1989. The game created for the Commodore 64 was also ported to the Amiga and Atari ST.
Year: 1989 Genre: Platformer
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Hudson Hawk is a platform game developed by Special FX for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum. It is based on the film of the same name with Bruce Willis. It was released in 1991 and published by Ocean Software.
Year: 1991 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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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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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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