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Post by Discoalucard on Mar 3, 2013 10:11:10 GMT -5
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Post by derboo on Mar 14, 2013 4:52:19 GMT -5
Hmm, is this actually the first platformer where you defeat enemies by jumping on their heads? There's a spooky amount of elements from this game that appear in Super Mario Bros...
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Post by 320x240 on Sept 2, 2016 16:41:46 GMT -5
Hmm, is this actually the first platformer where you defeat enemies by jumping on their heads? There's a spooky amount of elements from this game that appear in Super Mario Bros... For years I have been saying that the original Super Mario Bros is nothing but a single-screen platformer with most of it's content removed, it's platforms arranged horizontally instead of vertically, and with scrolling tacked on at the end. Of course, that is a bit of an unreasonable statement but there is some truth in it. I actually prefer simpler games like Bongo and Hunchback (not to mention Pitfall) over SMB. If there needs to be scrolling in a platformer I prefer it to be vertical, like in Irem's Wily Tower. Hopper Robo, along with Mr Do's Castle and Jump Coaster is the best examples of how 'multilayered' the later single-screen platformers became. It's my favourite kind of game and in some ways it is a pity that, in the arcades at least, they where only made between 81 and 84. |
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Post by derboo on Sept 4, 2016 12:12:17 GMT -5
Well, later there's Bubble Bobble and all its clones, which span well into the 90s...
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Post by 320x240 on Sept 4, 2016 17:03:23 GMT -5
Well, later there's Bubble Bobble and all its clones, which span well into the 90s... Yes, that kind of platformer still pops up now and then. Loderunner also kept going well into the 90's. Those are a different kind of platformer though. I regard flip-screen platformers like Pharaos Curse, Bruce Lee, Montezumas Revenge, Goonies (Msx) etc. to be the real heirs to the Donkey Kong style platformer. |
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