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Traditionally, the platform game scrolls right to left, with the playable character viewed from a side angle. The character climbs up and down ladders or jumps from platform to platform, fighting enemies, and often has the ability to gain powers or weapons. Later on, the term came to describe games where jumping on platforms, as opposed to shooting, was the main gameplay focus. These include games like Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong Country. However, many platform games feature projectile weapons, including the Mario and Castlevania franchises.

1 Chronology of significant platform games

• Space Panic ( Universal, 1980)
• Donkey Kong ( Nintendo, 1981) - first game featuring Mario (although named Jumpman at the time)
• Pitfall! ( Activision, 1982)
• Miner 2049er ( Big Five Software , 1982)
• Manic Miner ( Bug-Byte , 1983)
• Monty on the Run ( Gremlin Graphics , 1985) - ZX SpectrumThe Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a small home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. Based on a Zilog Z80 CPU running at 3. 50 MHz, the Spectrum came with either 16 KB or 48KB of RAM (an expansion pack was also available to upgr & CBM 64 classic
• Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo, 1985)
• Mega Man (Rockman) ( CapcomCAPCOM is a radio communications term which is used by NASA and is short for "capsule communicator," the radio operator in mission control. This article is about Capcom the video game company. Capcom which stands for Japan Capsule Computers is a Japanese, 1987)
• Haunted CastleHaunted Castle is a film released in 2001 to IMAX theaters in America and Germany. The film is rated PG and is computer-animated with 3D effects. Most who have seen it have commented that although the animation and 3D sensations are quite impressive, the ( KonamiKonami Corporation is a leading video game developer and publisher. The company was founded in 1969 in Osaka, Japan by Kagemasa Kozuki. It is now headquartered in Tokyo. Over the years, Konami has created some of the biggest and most memorable video games, 1988) - predecessor of the Castlevania series
• Super Mario Bros. 3Super Mario Bros. 3 was the last major Mario video game made for the Nintendo Family Computer (in Japan) and the Nintendo Entertainment System (in North America and Europe). It was developed through 1988 December 1989, and it was not released to the world (Nintendo, 1990) - highest grossing console game before Pokémon
• Commander Keen ( id Software, 1990) - first major PC platformer
• Sonic the Hedgehog ( Sega, 1991)
• Earthworm Jim ( Shiny Entertainment , 1994)
• Donkey Kong Country ( Rareware, 1994) - featured revolutionary computer generated graphics
• Super Mario 64 (Nintendo, 1996) - first truly 3-dimensional platform game