Platform
Description
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.
 Game Title |
PlayStation (1998) Tail Concerto is an anime anthropomorphic / furry 3d platform adventure. You play as the character Waffle Ryebread, a police... |
Game Boy (1991) Once again a peaceful kingdom, this time named Moberry, was assaulted by an evil entity. The player, taking control over... |
Game Gear (1995) and Nintendo 3DS (2013) Before Tails met Sonic the Hedgehog he lived on Cocoa Island, a place that isn't on the map. It's an... |
Game Gear (1995) Tails' Skypatrol is the first solo adventure of the Sonic sidekick Tails in the Sonic the Hedgehog series and it... |
PSP (2006) Empire Interactive's Taito Legends series of compilations moved onto handheld in Europe and the US with Taito Legends Power-Up. It... |
Game Boy Advance (2004) Apprentice shaman Tak has been having strange dreams after his first adventure. In his sleep he fights the Dream Guardian... |
NES (1994) The tranquility of the Master Higgins's (or Takahashi as his real name is) island is once again disturbed. This time,... |
Game Boy Advance (2003) Like the console version of this game, Tak and the Power of Juju features the evil shaman Tlaloc, who was... |
Windows 3.x (1992) and Macintosh (1993) Take a Break! Crosswords is a collection of puzzles licensed from Dell. Volume I represents the 375 crossword puzzles from... |
DOS (1994) Another game about crates! Building blocks of sorts, they both obstruct the player's path in initial level layouts and yet... |
Windows (2009) Takishawa is Dead is a difficult platformer presented in a 3D world. The player controls a character who hunts a... |
Game Boy Advance (2005) Like the console versions, Tak: The Great Juju Challenge features Tak and Lok as contestants in the great Juju Challenge,... |
Amiga (2000) Tales from Heaven is a 3D varied-viewpoint platformer resembling things like Mario 64 and Pandemonium, with over 2000 polygons on... |
ZX Spectrum (1991) and Commodore 64 (1991) You play Tarzan, who the witch doctor has turned into a monkey. To change back to his human form, you... |
Browser (2008) The glamourous life of Double Fine employee and cat fancier Tasha Harris has been entertaining its fans through her webcomic... |
Atari 2600 (1982) You are John Q and you want to be rich.In this game, you start out on the income screen where... |
Nintendo 64 (2000) Taz the Tasmanian Devil is a well-known Warner Bros. character which this game expands on. This 3D platform game sees... |
Genesis (1994), Game Gear (1994) and SEGA Master System (1996) You play as Taz, the famous cartoon-character. Taz is captured by Marvin the Martian and transfered to his intergalactic Zoo!... |
Game Gear (1992) One of several games based on the 1990s cartoon series Taz-Mania (in turn based on the Looney Tunes character), the... |
Genesis (1992) The relatively minor Looney Tunes character The Tasmanian Devil experienced a revival in the 1990s with the TV series Taz-Mania,... |
Game Boy (1994) Crazy Looney Tunes' character Taz has just escaped from the Acme Zoo and is now trying to find a place... |
SEGA Master System (1992) One evening, Taz's father is telling an intriguing tale. Somewhere on Tazmania is a Lost Valley, and in that valley... |
Game Boy (1997) Taz Mania 2 is the second Game Boy game based on the animated TV show. The player takes the role... |
Amiga (1993) You control Thomas, a strange-looking but vaguely cutesy animal of some description in an ultra-fast platform game. There are 50... |
Xbox 360 (2011) T.E.C 3001 is a futuristic energy collection game in which the player takes on the role of a Tesla Energy... |
