Platform

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Platform games (platformers) are action games in which the playfield is set up as a series of planes (floors, levels, or platforms) for the player to navigate.

Platform games often involve combat, but include additional challenges by making navigation hazardous. Often the challenges of overcoming environmental dangers surpass those posed by combat. The player character is usually required to jump over gaps and damaging areas, or to access a different platform. In many platform games the player character is very vulnerable and can die easily from falling damage, environmental traps, or enemy attacks.

Early platform games (e.g. Donkey Kong) were confined to one screen and required the player character to climb in order to reach higher platforms. Later platformers, popularized by Super Mario Bros., began to focus on traversing side-scrolling levels, often within an allotted time limit, fending off upcoming enemies and jumping. This style, commonly referred to as jump-and-run, has preserved itself in many later platformers as well.

Other platform games, such as Prince of Persia, emphasize exploration, combat, and problem-solving in addition to the usual platform challenges. Such games have become known as cinematic platformers. This style has had a considerable influence on many 3D platformers (e.g. later Prince of Persia games, ICO, etc.), which incorporate extensive puzzle-solving.

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Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars SEGA Master System (1988) and Wii (2009) Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars has similar gameplay like in the other Alex Kidd games, but this one's easier and...
Alex the Allegator 4 Windows (2003), Linux (2004) and Macintosh (2003) Alex the Allegator 4 is a classic-style side scrolling jump'n'run complete with boss fights. The player has to help Alex...
ALF SEGA Master System (1989) Help ALF try to get to Mars to see his friends Skip and Rhonda! ALF's latest adventure takes him out...
Alfred Chicken Amiga (1993), Game Boy (1993), NES (1993), SNES (1994) and Amiga CD32 (1993) Alfred the chicken must rescue his friends and his bird (pardon the pun) Floella from the Meka Chickens. The result...
Alfred Chicken PlayStation (2002) Oh no! Alfred's girlfriend Floella has been chicknapped by the malevolent MekaChicken! Navigate Alfred through worlds of cheese, playing cards,...
Aliants: The Desperate Battle For Earth! Atari 8-bit (1987), Atari ST (1987), Commodore 64 (1987) and DOS (1988) When Earthlings decided to stop wars and explore the outer space, another menace threaten them. The Aliants species, who came...
Alice in Wonderland Wii (2010) and Windows (2010) Alice in Wonderland is a licensed game based on the 2010 movie of the same name. The story takes place...
Alice in Wonderland: An Adventure Beyond the Mirror iPhone (2010) and Zeebo (2010) Alice in Wonderland: An Adventure Beyond the Mirror is a tie-in for the 2010 Tim Burton's movie Alice in Wonderland....
Alice: Madness Returns PlayStation 3 (2011), Windows (2011) and Xbox 360 (2011) The events of Alice: Madness Returns begin where the previous game left off: desperately struggling with her own mind, Alice...
Alien Commodore 64 (1990) 30 Billion colonists live on the planet Hegira. The planet's major source of energy, the EFU (Energy Fusion Unit) is...
Alien³ SEGA Master System (1992), Commodore 64 (1992), Genesis (1992), Amiga (1992) and Game Gear (1994) Alien³ is a video game based on the movie of the same name. The plot of the movie picks up...
Alien³ SNES (1993) Lt. Ellen Ripley is sleeping in the cryogenic chamber aboard the spaceship Sulaco. A fire breaks out in the chamber,...
Alien³ NES (1993) Alien³ on the NES is similar to Probe Software's adaptations of the film on other systems. While using the same...
Alien 8 MSX (1987), ZX Spectrum (1985), Amstrad CPC (1985) and BBC Micro (1985) This is a puzzle solving game. You are on board a space ship that is heading towards a remote planet....
Alien 8 Windows (2008) and Macintosh (2008) This open-source, freeware remake of Ultimate's classic isometric title adds complete new sets of graphics, music and sounds, while preserving...
Alien 8 Remake MSX (2009) This remake for the MSX 2 computer of the monochromatic 8-bit isometric classic adds colors and fixes some of the...
Alien Breed Special Edition & Qwak Amiga CD32 (1994) Alien Breed Special Edition & Qwak is a compilation which includes the following games on one CD:Alien Breed: Special Edition...
Alien Carnage DOS (1993) Alien Carnage (also known as Halloween Harry) is a follow-up to the 1985 game Halloween Harry, created for the Microbee...
Alien Chaos 3D Nintendo 3DS (2013) Ex commando Really Shooter and his mother Poor Mama is running the cleaning service Clean House together. Sometimes when aliens...
Alien Pyramid Challenge! Xbox 360 (2009) Alien Pyramid Challenge! is a puzzle based platformer that has the players alien character trapped in an ancient Egyptian pyramid...
Alien Rampage DOS (1996) Alien Rampage is a 2D side-scroller with large animated sprites and multiple layers of parallaxing backgrounds.You are a lone angry...
Aliens: Alien 2 MSX (1987) Whereas most platforms, including the MSX, received their own versions of Activision's Aliens, Square gave Japanese MSX users a unique...
Aliens: Infestation Nintendo DS (2011) Aliens: Infestation is a side-scrolling action/platformer that takes heavy inspiration from Nintendo's Metroid series and from latter-day Castlevania side-scrollers. Infestation...
Alien Worlds DOS (1989) You must kill off endless waves of aliens. You do this by flying around a screen (using your rocket pack)...
Alien Zombie Megadeath PlayStation 3 (2011) and Windows (2011) Alien Zombie Megadeath is the sequel to Alien Zombie Death. It is a fast-paced shooter set in fenced, horizontally-scrolling 2D...