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The genre of platformer is also called "walk-in game" or "platform game." This is a genre of video games, where the main goal for a player is to jump on various platforms, collect objects, climb stairs. Another very close genre to platformer is a side scroller, a feature of the genre is that the player can only move left and right.
Levels are often developed with hidden caches, secrets or passages in the walls. When the player finds the entrance to the cache, he receives an item that in the subsequent passage makes it easier for him to play. A distinctive ability of this genre from others is unrealistic graphics, often drawn or cartoonish.
The first games released in the platformer genre appeared in the 1980s. Game consoles were then weak to display three-dimensional graphics and video. The first game was Space Panic, followed by the then-popular Donkey Kong. But in 1985, Nintendo launched the new Super Mario Bros. The game made an extraordinary impression on society and the game world as a whole. Super Mario sold huge editions around the world, and became an example for subsequent games being developed.
Adventure games were three-dimensional in the late 1990s. In those years, the Crash Bandicoot game was released, it was fully consistent with the main principles of the Platform games for mac. Subsequently, the genre was called platformer due to the fact that the gameplay consists of jumping on platforms. But it is worth noting that many games give the protagonist small arms, among such games Castlevania and Blackthorne.
The peak of the genre's popularity was in the late 1990s, today there are few modern games in this genre, although games are still being released, among them, for example, the Assassin’s Creed Chronicles game, which consists of three parts.
Here is a list of games that are classics of the platformer genre: Magic Pockets, Bumpy`s Arcade Fantasy, Commander Keen, Rick Dangerous, Electro Man, Adventures of Lomax, Prince of Persia, Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Rockman, Rayman, Crash Bandicoot, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers.
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