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.
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DOS (1998) and Macintosh (1999) The Gold Edition of Tomb Raider adds two new chapters to the original release. The first chapter takes place in... |
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Windows (1999) Tomb Raider II Gold is a re-release of Tomb Raider II along with a new scenario titled "The Golden Mask",... |
Windows (2000) Tomb Raider III: Adventures in India is a special OEM released version of Tomb Raider III. As an OEM release,... |
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Windows (2005) This SoldOut series bundle pack contains 2 games from the Tomb Raider series:
Tomb Raider 3
The Last Revelation |
ExEn (2005) and J2ME (2004) Tomb Raider: Quest for Cinnabar is the second opus of Tomb Raider games on mobile phones, starring Lara Croft as... |
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Windows (2000) The Lost Artifact can be described as a "mini-sequel" to Tomb Raider III; comparable in function to earlier Gold releases... |
ExEn (2004) and J2ME (2003) Tomb Raider: The Osiris Codex is the first episode of a trilogy using the Tomb Raider license. Lara is about... |
Macintosh (2001) The Tomb Raider Trilogy contains the following games:
Tomb Raider Gold
Tomb Raider II Gold
Tomb Raider III (including The... |
PlayStation 3 (2011) The Tomb Raider Trilogy is a compilation of the first three Tomb Raider games developed by Crystal Dynamics. It includes:... |
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Xbox 360 (2009) Beneath the Ashes is the first add-on for Tomb Raider: Underworld and exclusive to the Xbox 360 version of the... |
Xbox 360 (2009) Lara's Shadow is the second and final add-on for Tomb Raider: Underworld and just like the first add-on, Beneath the... |
Windows (2008), Xbox 360 (2008) and PlayStation 3 (2008) This Limited Edition comes in a slipcase and contains:
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Exclusive behind the scenes documentary
Previously unreleased in-game... |
Game Boy Advance (2003) and N-Gage (2003) You're casted in a role of Sam Fisher, an secret operative that gets his hands dirty when others will not.... |
J2ME (2006) and BlackBerry (2009) The mobile version of the fourth main Splinter Cell game puts agent Sam Fisher in a difficult position: as a... |
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Genesis (1993) "Dinosaurs For Hire" does not really have a plot. Unknown monsters and weird robotic creatures attack the Earth. For some... |
Windows (1999) and Nintendo 64 (1999) In the tradition of Rayman (a platform jumper) comes another whacky adventure from Ubisoft!Ed, the friendly alien space janitor, accidentally... |
Game Boy Color (2000) Tonic Trouble for the Game Boy Color is a side-scrolling platform game featuring the alien janitor Ed as the protagonist,... |
DOS (1994) Tonko is a Korean-made platform game that consists of very small (almost single-screen) stages. Each stage is a platform structure... |
Windows (1996) The follow-up to Tonko takes a different approach to single-screen platforming. The titular little yellow goblin-like hero is now stripped... |
Windows (1997) Tonko 3 attempts to walk the middle ground between the first and the second game in the series. This platformer... |
