The Platformer Video Game Thread

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

Due to popular... well, one demand;

You need to make a thread for platformers Olly - you know your shit, and I'm always looking for new platformers to play!

I present the official platformer video game thread on RedCafe.net - the leading Manchester United forum.

Did you know, in Germany they call platform games, "Jump 'n' Run" games. Well, you do now.

I guess as I started the thread I should say some of my favourite ones, so... for now here are just five as I could list loads, in no particular order, apart from Yoshi's Island being at the top, that needs to be at the top of every list.

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Batman
Super Castlevania IV
Wario Land 4
Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Oh ok let's do another five

The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Kirby's Fun Pak (Kirby Super Star)
Gremlins 2
Demon's Crest... *sigh*

So, post your favourites, ask for recommendations, or just talk a load of bollocks.

 

[Shane88]

Some of my favourites, in the order I first played them...


Loved Sonic when I was a kid. I remember giving up on this for ages though because of that stupid barrel in the Carnival Zone.


First game I got for the PS1.


Every Jak and Daxter game was great really but 2 was the best.


A fairly recent one. Really underrated game, much darker than the other games I've picked but a great platformer.

They're just a few I've picked, could've picked shitloads really. Mario, Spyro, Rayman, Ratchet & Clank, Croc etc.

 

[Moby]

 

[Snowjoe]

Basically every Mario and Sonic game ever.

Oh and Aladdin for the NES or SNES or whatever it was.

 

[Pexbo]

The first game I ever played:


One of my favourites when I was younger:

 

[Mystry]

Super Mario Land on the gameboy was probably the first platformer I played. Probably my favourite soundtrack out of all the mario games.


Also had Zool 2 on my Amiga but never got past the first level on the second world. I really should go back and play that.


Had a whole bunch of platformers for my Amiga like Lion King and Aladdin which were great and some not so great like Oscar. A game where the background, foreground, enemies and pick ups are blended seamlessly together into a mesh of bright colours so you had no idea what was going on.

 

[WeasteDevil]

Bubble Bobble

Although I mainly played it in the arcade and on C64

Rainbow Islands

New Zealand Story

Giana Sisters

 

[WeasteDevil]

Superfrog

Nebulus

Fire and Ice

Magic Pockets

Putty

 

[WeasteDevil]

Turrican II

Brian the Lion

A mix

Could go on forever.......

 

[duffer]

This is the first platformer I ever had.....

 

[Earthquake]

Why am I not already subscribed to this thread?!

Crash Bandicoot as mentioned above, immense platformer, one of my very faves.

 

[Redlambs]

The original Wonderboy, New Zealand story and the amazing Psycho fox are games people need to play!

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

What's Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair like? I bought it about a year ago but haven't played it yet. Just had a look on Youtube and it looks a bit weird.

 

[Earthquake]

Ristar is pretty excellent, far better than I expected, that's for sure.

 

[Redlambs]

What's Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair like? I bought it about a year ago but haven't played it yet. Just had a look on Youtube and it looks a bit weird.

Yeah it's pretty fun. It's a mash-up of platformer and shoot-em-up.

Wonderboy in Monster Land, now there's a fecking game! A platform-come-RPG, excellent game that one is!


Oh and the others made by the Psycho Fox team, Kid Kool and De-Cap Attack All three were incredibly original and great titles, people should play them if not own them!

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

Yeah it's pretty fun. It's a mash-up of platformer and shoot-em-up.

Wonderboy in Monster Land, now there's a fecking game! A platform-come-RPG, excellent game that one is!


Oh and the others made by the Psycho Fox team, Kid Kool and De-Cap Attack All three were incredibly original and great titles, people should play them if not own them!

Cool I'll give it a shot sometime!


Here's a fun one I bet nobody here has played, Magical Taruruuto-kun: Magic Adventure, on the Super Famicom

 

[WeasteDevil]

The original Wonderboy, New Zealand story and the amazing Psycho fox are games people need to play!

Good story regarding New Zealand Story, my mate and I were playing through it, and he was changing a light bulb. I said to him I'm going to play the game and I'll finish it, he laughed whilst on top of the ladder. I finished it!

 

[Shane88]

Forgot about Dynamite Headdy, mental game...


That video reminds me how much I hated that fecking cat.

 

[Aboutreika18]

Rayman:


Tombi:


Klonoa:


Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

 

[Earthquake]

I used to love this one, despite it being generally accepted as being utter rubbish(IIRC).

Pandemonium.

 

[Alock1]

This thread doesn't have enough Crash Bandicoot and Spyro for sure - my personal favourites. How many people find that their favourites are pretty much based around nostalgia, often being amount the first games they played?

Sonic, Spyro and Crash are my top 3 - Mario, Donkey Kong later because I played them later.

Spyro 2 was probably the best of the Spyros, but Year of the Dragon (3) is my favourite - simply for the two skateboarding levels.



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So,

3D or 2D?
Third person camera or side scrolling?
What do we think makes a platformer so good?
What is the best multiplayer platformers?
Which have the best/hardest boss levels?

 

[Alock1]

Some of my favourites, in the order I first played them...

They're just a few I've picked, could've picked shitloads really. Mario, Spyro, Rayman, Ratchet & Clank, Croc etc.

Great taste.

 

[Redlambs]

Mario64. The undisputed king.

 

[Alock1]

Mario64. The undisputed king.

I played this later, so perhaps under rate it (still amazing), but Super Mario Bros 3 was my favourite Mario game.

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

Anyone ever played Xandra no Daibōken on the SFC? It was released in Europe as Whirlo but it's very rare and expensive.

Really good fun game, but hard and very long

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

What about Go Go Beckham? Surely someone must have played this

 

[Dante]

Mario 64 was my first thought though I avoided mentioning it because it was 3D. But if we are going to go down that route I've got to mention Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Easily in my top 5 games of all time. Ubisoft ruined the franchise by making the sequels dark and angsty.

What about Go Go Beckham? Surely someone must have played this

Never played it, but it does remind me of Marko's Magic Football on the Mega Drive.


That brought back memories.

 

[Alock1]

Mario 64 was my first thought though I avoided mentioning it because it was 3D. But if we are going to go down that route I've got to mention Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Easily in my top 5 games of all time. Ubisoft ruined the franchise by making the sequels dark and angsty.

A good number of my favourite platformers are 3D! They definitely deserve a place in this thread, right?

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

Mario 64 was my first thought though I avoided mentioning it because it was 3D. But if we are going to go down that route I've got to mention Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Easily in my top 5 games of all time. Ubisoft ruined the franchise by making the sequels dark and angsty.

3D platformers are for this thread too, mine in the OP were only 2D because they're what I prefer

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

Never played it, but it does remind me of Marko's Magic Football on the Mega Drive.


That brought back memories.

Yeah it looks similar gameplay wise, along with Soccer Kid. Looks pretty good.

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

Skyblazer on the SNES, published by Sony Imagesoft, is a good underrated game that I'd recommend for anyone that likes 2d platform/action games

 

[Alock1]

I know this isn't technically a platformer, not a typical one anyway; but I reckon a lot of you platformer fans (especially 2D ones) would absolutely love Mark of the Ninja - check it out, it's fecking brilliant.
It does share some typical platforming features, and it's a 2D side-scroller but technically

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

Ah, thought that said Mystical Ninja for a quick second. Now that's a good game

 

[Mystry]

I'm guessing I'm the only one who doesn't think Mario 64 was that great? The shit camera killed, what could have been a game I loved, for me.

 

[Dan]

Wardner.

 

[Nickosaur]

Nostalgia overload! Jak II was brilliant! I loved the Jak and Daxter games. Crash Bandicoot didn't evolve quite so well from PS1 > PS2 but it was still a lot of fun.

 

[vanthaman]

Used to live Croc and Gex on psx

 

[FCBarca]

I thought Rayman Origins was fantastic but Rayman Legends is perhaps even a step above. The French creators really have really created an addictive gaming experience.

 

[Earthquake]

This thread doesn't have enough Crash Bandicoot and Spyro for sure - my personal favourites. How many people find that their favourites are pretty much based around nostalgia, often being amount the first games they played?

Sonic, Spyro and Crash are my top 3 - Mario, Donkey Kong later because I played them later.

Spyro 2 was probably the best of the Spyros, but Year of the Dragon (3) is my favourite - simply for the two skateboarding levels.

Spoiler

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So,

3D or 2D?
Third person camera or side scrolling?
What do we think makes a platformer so good?
What is the best multiplayer platformers?
Which have the best/hardest boss levels?

Spyro was immense, when I played it, I had no memory card, had to play it all in one go.

Mario 64 was my first thought though I avoided mentioning it because it was 3D. But if we are going to go down that route I've got to mention Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Easily in my top 5 games of all time. Ubisoft ruined the franchise by making the sequels dark and angsty.

Didn't think that was a platformer, as much as an adventure game, or I'd have mentioned it. Immense game, and as you say, ruined by it's sequels.

Coincidentally, I got it as a bundle with my PS2, and couldn't afford a memory card that week.....

 

[Bebe]

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

One of the most incredible gaming experiences I've had. Talk about brilliant level design..