Platform
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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NES (1990)
Moai Kun is a platform puzzle game where you play as Moai, the Easter Island statue, that has appeared in...
Moai No HihouMSX (1986)
In The Secret Treasure Of Moai your goal is to reach the level exit at the top by climbing and...
Amstrad CPC (1989)
As man in some sort of hand-made bike/helicopter you are flying down into the catacombs of some French town. These...
Game Boy Advance (2004) and NES (1986)
Kidou Senshi Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble is the first known Mobile Suit Gundam game released on the NES. Mobile Suit Gundam...
Modern Warfare 2DWindows (2010)
This is a parody remake of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All the main scenes (including the notorious "No...
Windows (2002)
Modi and Nanna are the children of Tyr, a Viking leader, and they have to rescue a village. A huge...
SNES (1995)
Protean platform hero with attitude (well, with sunglasses) rocks out in this novel but forgotten would-be Sonic-killer, collecting CDs (this...
The follow-up to Mole Mole plays exactly like the original, which means that it is very close to Boulder Dash...
Windows (2007)
A sequel to the bizarre Mondo Medicals, Mondo Agency is a peculiar, surreal game which pits you as "Agent-65386", who...
MoneySeizeWindows (2009) and Browser (2009)
In MoneySeize, players take control of Sir Reginald MoneySeize II, Esq., who has to collect 1010 coins to fund the...
SEGA Master System (1991)
The master of dirt, king of slime, Capitão Feio, with the help of an army of monsters, conquered the world...
Monkey AcademyColecoVision (1984) and MSX (1984)
This platform game is about solving arithmetic problems. In the equation one number is missing, you 'll have to find...
Monkey BiznessZX Spectrum (1983)
Donkey Kong provides the basic gameplay for this platforms-and-ladders game comprising 8 screens. You start at the bottom of each...
J2ME (2004)
Monkey King is based on the character of the Monkey King from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West....
TRS-80 CoCo (1983) and Dragon 32/64 (1984)
Monkey Kong, or as it was dubbed by MicroDeal, King Cuthbert, is yet another Donkey Kong clone (of course). Two...
Monkey LabourMonkey Labour is an 1980s handheld LCD game recreation for iOS. The game features simple gameplay but is hard to...
Monkey MagicCommodore 64 (1984) and Commodore 16, Plus/4 (1985)
Based on the original television series that ran from 1978 to 1980, the player controls Monkey as he makes his...
PlayStation (1999)
Monkey Magic is a platform game for the Playstation based upon a successful cartoon of the same name. The cartoon...
DOS (1996)
Monmallineun Tarokbeom tells the story of a man who crossed the street on a red light and got arrested and...
Monster BashDOS (1993)
The evil Count Chuck has kidnapped all the world's animals in order to turn them into soldiers in his dark...
Amiga (1991) and Atari ST (1991)
Monster Business is influenced by vintage platformers such as Mr. Do and Dig Dug. Bob owns a zoo, but the...
NES (1992)
The evil Warlock wants to take over the world! He calls his fellow monsters to join him, but several refuse...
Monster PartyNES (1989)
You are a young boy with a baseball bat named Mark. On your way home from a baseball game, you...
Monster Rancher ExplorerGame 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-BoutPlayStation (2000)
Monster Rancher Hop-A-Bout is a platform adventure game based on characters from the Monster Rancher video games and animated TV...
