History of Computer Platform Games

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History of Platform Games on Western Home Computer Game Machines

This is a chronological index of some notable 16 and 32 bit platform games that I have currently covered in overviews and reviews. Only platform games that appeared on Western home computer game machines are indexed.

Platform games can also be referred to as platformers or run-and-jump (and/or shoot) games. Thus, some run and gun games are indexed if they feature platforming. In time I intend to add definitions, descriptions and historical narrative to this post, but for now this is just an index that allows me to track my progress.

Great Giana Sisters Commodore 64 Time Warp Armin Gessert 1987:

Bubble Bobble Amiga Software Creations David J. Broadhurst 1988:

Great Giana Sisters Amiga Time Warp Thomas Hertzler 1988:

Nebulus Tower Toppler Amiga John M. Phillips Hewson 1988:

Prince of Persia Apple 2 Brøderbund Jordan Mechner 1989:

Bio Challenge Amiga Delphine Software 1989:

New Zealand Story Amiga Choice Colin Gordon 1989:

Hard n Heavy Amiga reLINE Software 1989:

RoboCop Amiga Ocean Software 1989:

Ghouls 'n Ghosts Amiga Software Creations 1989:

Ghosts 'n Goblins Amiga Elite Systems 1990:

Rainbow Islands Amiga Graftgold Andrew Braybrook 1990:

Killing Game Show Amiga Raising Hell Software 1990:

Midnight Resistance Amiga Special FX Ocean Software 1990:

Commander Keen IBM PC MS-DOS id Software John Carmack 1990:

Flood Amiga Bullfrog Productions Sean Cooper 1990:

James Pond Amiga Vectordean Chris Sorrell 1990:

RoboCop 2 Amiga Special FX Ocean Software 1990:

Unreal Amiga Ordilogic Systems 1990:

Venus the Flytrap Amiga Gremlin Graphics 1990:

Turrican Games Amiga Manfred Trenz 1990-93:

Gods IBM PC MS-DOS Bitmap Brothers 1991:

Prehistorik IBM PC MS-DOS Titus France 1991:

Chuck Rock Amiga Core Design 1991:

Duke Nukem IBM PC MS-DOS Apogee 1991:

James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod Amiga Vectordean 1991:

Another World Amiga Éric Chahi 1991:

Flashback Amiga Delphine Software 1992:

Deliverance Amiga 1992 21st Century Entertainment Devinart:

B.C. Kid Amiga Factor 5 1992:

Parasol Stars Amiga Ocean Software Mick West 1992:

Zool Amiga Gremlin Graphics 1992:

Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja IBM PC MS-DOS Elite 1992:

Halloween Harry IBM PC MS-DOS SubZero Software 1993:

Lionheart Amiga Thalion Software 1993:

Superfrog Amiga Team 17 1993:

Yo! Joe! Amiga Scipio 1993:

Zool 2 Amiga AGA The Warp Factory 1993:

Bio Menace IBM PC MS-DOS Apogee Software 1993:

Lost Vikings IBM PC MS-DOS Silicon & Synapse 1993:

Alien Carnage IBM PC MS-DOS SubZero Software 1994:

Blackthorne IBM PC MS-DOS Blizzard Entertainment 1994:

Ruff n Tumble Amiga Wunderkind 1994:

Kid Chaos Amiga Magnetic Fields Shaun Southern 1994:

Mr. Nutz Amiga The Neon Team 1994:

Jazz Jackrabbit IBM PC MS-DOS Epic MegaGames 1994:

Aladdin IBM PC MS-DOS Spontaneous Confusion 1994:

Lion King IBM PC MS-DOS East Point Software 1994:

Superfrog IBM PC MS-DOS Team 17 1994:

James Pond 3: Operation Starfish Amiga AGA Vectordean 1994:

Earthworm Jim IBM PC MS-DOS Shiny Entertainment 1995:

Rayman IBM PC MS-DOS Ubi Soft Paris Studios 1995:

Abuse IBM PC MS-DOS 1996 Crack Dot Com:

Rainbow Islands IBM PC MS-DOS Probe Entertainment 1996:

Lost Vikings 2 IBM PC MS-DOS Beam Software 1997:

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WiP of flip-screen platform games:

Manic Miner ZX Spectrum Matthew Smith 1983:

Jet Set Willy ZX Spectrum Matthew Smith 1984:

Impossible Mission Commodore 64 Dennis Caswell 1984:

Starquake ZX Spectrum Stephen Crow 1985:

Starquake Atari ST Bubble Bus Mandarin 1988:

Indexes:

• Amiga Games Reviews (Index to all Amiga game reviews)
• Computer Game Reviews (Index to all computer game reviews)
• The First REAL Amiga Game
• Best Amiga Games
• History of Computer Games 1976-2024 (Master Index)