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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Monster in My Pocket NES (1992) The evil Warlock wants to take over the world! He calls his fellow monsters to join him, but several refuse...
Monster Party NES (1989) You are a young boy with a baseball bat named Mark. On your way home from a baseball game, you...
Monster Rancher Explorer Game Boy Color (2000) Monster Rancher Explorer is an updated port of Tecmo's 1987 NES game, Solomon's Key and features environments, characters and monsters...
Monster Rancher Hop-A-Bout PlayStation (2000) Monster Rancher Hop-A-Bout is a platform adventure game based on characters from the Monster Rancher video games and animated TV...
Monsters Dragon 32/64 (1983) In the advert, Monsters is described as "a superb version of the Arcade game Dig Dug-Panic", and indeed it is...
Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess PlayStation 3 (2010), PSP (2010) and Xbox 360 (2010) Duke's Princess is gone. She was stolen by monsters! Probably. Well, who else could have done that?In this 2D platform...
Monsters vs. Aliens Windows (2009), PlayStation 2 (2009), Xbox 360 (2009), PlayStation 3 (2009) and Wii (2009) Monsters vs. Aliens is based on the animated movie of the same name. During the course of the game the...
Monster Tale Nintendo DS (2011) Young girl, Ellie, finds a strange, glowing bracelet in the woods, and upon touching it is transported to a magical...
Monster Trucks Nitro Macintosh (2008) and Windows (2008) Monster Trucks Nitro is an arcade racing game in which the player gets to race a Monster Truck. While the...
Monster World IV Genesis (1994), Wii (2008) and PlayStation 3 (2012) Monster World IV is a sequel to Wonder Boy 5: Monster World 3. The player controls Asha, the green-haired girlfriend...
Monte Carlo Baccarat DOS (1991) The game represents the one of the card games included in Trump Castle II - Baccarat. Now it is played...
Montezooma Windows (2001) Montezooma is an arcade platformer in which the player has to help the titular warrior to emerge victorious in battles...
Montezuma's Return DOS (1997) and Windows (1997) Max Montezuma is a soldier who also happens to be a descendant of a legendary Aztec emperor. One day Max's...
Montezuma's Return Game Boy (1998) and Game Boy Color (1998) Montezuma's Return is, in contrast to to the PC game of the same name, not a completely new adventure but...
Montezuma's Revenge PC Booter (1984), Atari 2600 (1984), ColecoVision (1984), Atari 5200 (1983), Commodore 64 (1984), SEGA Master System (1989), Apple II (1984) and Atari 8-bit (1984) You play as a treasure hunter named Panama Joe, whose goal is to find an ancient treasure hidden by Aztec...
Monty on the Run Amstrad CPC (1985), Commodore 64 (1985), ZX Spectrum (1985) and Commodore 16, Plus/4 (1986) Monty Mole was imprisoned due to his coal theft in Wanted: Monty Mole, and rescued by Sam Stoat in Monty...
Monty's Christmas Special Windows (2007) Following in the footsteps of fangame Moley Xmas and especially Gremlin's Moley Christmas, this holiday season sees retro protagonist Monty...
Monuments of Mars DOS (1991) Monuments of Mars is a low-rez, early PC platform game sharing an engine with Apogee's Arctic Adventure and Pharaoh's Tomb.The...
Moon Crystal NES (1992) Moon Crystal is a platform action game where you control Ricky Slater on his mission to free his kidnapped father...
Moonfall: Land of Dreams Windows (2009) In the town of Moonfall, dreams are being ruined by the evil known as Malus. The fate of this secluded...
The Moonkeeper Windows (2009) The Moonkeeper is a platformer with a distinctive retro-style, in sound (no music except for the intro and the end...
Moonlight Madness ZX Spectrum (1988) Your scout duty takes you into the heavily booby-trapped home of an eccentric old professor, who suddenly collapses. His pills...
Moon Ranger NES (1990) An alien species has set up a dormant space craft on the moon to mine the solar system's resources. As...
Moonshadow Commodore 64 (1990) There's two moons around your planet. One is full of magical energy that keeps an evil snake at bay. One...
Moon's Revival Android (2012) Moon's Revival is a 2D side-scrolling platform game where the player controls the little warrior Ibn. When the moon disappears...