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Other examples of adventure franchises include
Gabriel Knight, Indiana Jones, Maniac Mansion, Monkey
Island, Myst, Police Quest, and Syberia.
Platform: It is believed that the platform genre began
in 1981 with the release of the games Donkey Kong and
Space Panic. Games within this genre are usually
identified by navigating environments that require timing
and jumping in order to reach a desitination while
avoiding and/or disposing of enemies.
Many of these, like Donkey Kong, have a series of
screens, each with its own individual pattern of
challenges. As companies began to develop platform
games for home consoles and computers instead of arcade
machines (i.e. Super Mario Bros for the Famicom and
Nintendo Entertainment system), they took advantage of
the evolving processors and and greater memory capacity
by transcending individual screens and utilizing actively
side-scrolling worlds.
This evolutionary step in platform games moved them
closer to immersive stories rather than challenging
puzzles. Platform video games continued to evolve as
gaming became more 3D.
One of the greatest 3D platform games was introduced
with the launch of the Nintendo 64 and was called Super
Mario 64. Examples of 2D screen-based platform
franchises include Bubble Bobble, Burgertime, Donkey
Kong, Lode Runner, Mario Bros., and Space Panic.
Examples of 2D scrolling platform franchises include
Bonk, Donkey Kong Country, Sonic the Hedgehog,
Super Mario Bros., and Vectorman. Examples of 3D
platform franchises include Crash Bandicoot, Pac-Man
World, Spyro the Dragon, and the aforementioned Super
Mario 64.