Platformers

Mario, Sonic, Donkey Kong, Wonderboy and even that woman Lara Croft; the Platform genre has the game world's biggest stars. Platformers are good, clean fun and we love 'em. Here's the best of the genre.

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Frogger

The object of the game was simple enough: get your frog safely across a busy road, then carry on across a river. One would think that it was a case of just swimming across the river but no, that wasn't the case. For some reason the water was lethal to our little froggy friend, so you had jump onto logs, turtles and crocodiles. More...

Gunstar Heroes

With this game treasure revolutionised the character shooter. They took everything that Turrican had taught us about power-ups and platforms, they added fantastic smooth graphics and well designed characters and then somehow managed to put more sprites on screen at once than was ever thought possible. More...

I, Robot

Weird as it maybe I Robot is a really addictive game with stunning graphics and is well worth a play today. This isn't just nostalgic fun this is a genuinely brilliant game. More...

Jack the Nipper 2: In Coconut Capers

They took the Jet Set Willy style of platform game and then chucked in a whole pile of extras to add all important variety to the game play. More...

Jet Set Radio

Fast, beautiful, addictive; Jet Set Radio is Sega at their very best. Games like this don’t come along often enough, so this particular game comes with the highest of recommendations. More...

Kwik Snax

A next-gen maze game with bags of ingenuity. A simple Pac Man clone this is not. More...

Lemmings

Let's not beat around the bush. Lemmings is one of the most evil things ever created. In conjunction with its sadistic, demonic nature, it also happens to be one of the most ingenious video games yet to appear. More...

Manic Miner

It's easy to forget how important Manic Miner is but if you mention the ZX Spectrum to anyone under 40 in the UK the chances are they'll say either Manic Miner or its sequel Jet Set Willy. The reason for this is simple; we'd never seen anything like this before. More...

Mega Man 3

Mega Man is a platform shooter with a twist; when Mega Man defeats his enemies he gains their powers. With this in mind you are sent out to defeat a collection of Master crooks each with a special power and an appropriate name to go with it e.g Spark Man, Snake Man, Needle Man. More...