@fairlanefastback

When I was a kid the earth's crust had not yet hardened, so there was no silicon from which to fabricate computer chips.

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Shoots-n-ladders was as close as it came in our small town.
I was intrigued because theoretically the game could go on forever, but it never did.
Wasn't until we got my son a Apple II that I even considered "platform games".

Now when the Amiga 500 came along.... I was the only one in our family to finish the 1st version of Lemmings, so I'll pick that one!

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@bison

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bison wrote: @fairlanefastback When I was a kid the earth's crust had not yet hardened, so there was no silicon from which to fabricate computer chips.

Pah...

Think you had it hard... when I were just a lad the universe hadn't even been created yet and we had to walk 40 thousand lightyears with only banana skins on our feet for shoes just to get to school (which was a waste of time as school hadn't even been invented yet)...

PS: The guy who finally built the universe (Gawd I think they called him) was still at college studying Architecture and Intelligent design on the very first computer ever invented (built by Commodore after they fell through a hole in the space time continuum)...


(Worlds Very First Computer... (GFX RESOLUTION: 10 x 10, COLOURS: 5 from a palette of erm... 5, MEMORY: Depended On the User...)

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@fairlanefastback

> What was your favorite platform game as a kid?

In my childhood days the computers that were in existence were very big, very expensive, and used about a small towns worth of electricity to do what to-days wristwatches do and were mainly used by the Military for calculating the trajectory of Artillery shells fired from big guns into enemy territory.

Because electronic computers were so new very few people knew they existed and so the computers were used for very few things really.

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I wasn't allowed a computer or video game as a kid, but eventuall I came across Nintendo and I believe Super Mario Bros was the favourite.

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Too mush epic games in the past :p

I remind of the Colecovision console
With Mountain King : http://retromedia.ign.com/retro/image/article/848/848707/mountain-king-20080130041938719.jpg
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@fairlanefastback

I remember downland for the Coco!

But I was an adult before home computers existed. The TRS-80 Model 1 and Apple 2 came out when I was about 18 years old.

So, unless you count pong as a platform game, I'm disqualified.

Scott

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@Franko

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Franko wrote: Think you had it hard... when I were just a lad the universe hadn't even been created yet and we had to walk 40 thousand lightyears with only banana skins on our feet for shoes just to get to school (which was a waste of time as school hadn't even been invented yet)... PS: The guy who finally built the universe (Gawd I think they called him) was still at college studying Architecture and Intelligent design on the very first computer ever invented (built by Commodore after they fell through a hole in the space time continuum)...

Think you had it hard... When I were a lad I'd have been in heaven to have banana skins for shoes, All I had was a a tiny sliver of apple peel, I had to walk 80 thousand lightyears to school on a planet that hadn't even formed yet and then walk 90 thousand lightyears home because of the expanding bloody universe and it was uphill both ways...

PS: That gawd guy was still learning to walk (not that he ever really got the hang of it, he still walks in a mysterious way) while I was working out the whole of PI on the prototype ZX-5,000,000,000

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@fairlanefastback

I guess Super Mario Bros on C=64. It actually was a C=128 used in 64 Mode, since there always was a big lack of C=128 software in Italy.

Can I say "TombRaider 2" on PSX? I was 27 at that time, but a still consider myself "a big kid". :)

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Lol...

not only platform, here...



Maniac Mansion

Defender of the crown
The last ninja
Delta
bubble bobble
Enry House
Sky race
Dynamite Dan
Lazarian
Hero
The sacred armour of antiriad
Bombo
Le mans
Buggy boy
Bomb Jack
Fairlight
knigth lore
The Golden Bat (adventure)

and many others

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What was your favorite platform game as a kid?

I had a VIC 20 as a kid, who else here had one?

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g0blin wrote: @fairlanefastback I guess Super Mario Bros on C=64. It actually was a C=128 used in 64 Mode, since there always was a big lack of C=128 software in Italy.

Someone hacked GREAT GIANA SISTERS and put Mario sprites in it. So your answer should be Great Giana Sisters, which I also happen to think is awesome. My favourite platform game is Superfrog. SNES quality platforming fun on an Amiga! Team17 rock!

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it was quite a buzz you got standing there with your toes right at the edge of the platform, neck & face outstretched as far a

No platforms, or stations, along the tracks where I lived, so no platform games when I was a kid. It was still fun running in front of the trains; there were plenty of those, mostly carrying stuff headed for the war.

Otherwise, I'm not even sure just what a "platform game" would be.

I played bubble bobble a lot.

But my all time favorite platformer is Gods, I still play it. I have never been able finish it though.

The classic games I play most are: Colonization, Dune, Dune II, gods, breathless and quake, if you can call the latter a classic, I do.

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Bubble-Bobble or New-Zealand Story for me.

Oooh, Venus was pretty good too, never quite beat that one.

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Jumpan and Jumpman Jr on the C=64!

Youtube - Jumpan

So many hours of fun :)

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@BigD

Mario Brothers was actually released officially for the Commodore c64 .. ,
and to this day both atari and Nintendo has it in their Hall Of Fame lists.

Youtube video link

@JPV

toy bizzare perhaps?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2o4IGHi4Ww

i love that game , even today.. but then again... retro = best thing ever.

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@Toaks

Mario Bros was also released by Ocean Software in conjunction with Nintendo on the C64 in 1987...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgJyfkJWroY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpPiFe5xASo

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@Delta_qc

Ah yes :) Brilliant game ^^

Montezumas Revenge is a game i kinda forgot about;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-h8zLM2jA

and Cauldron 2;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYVa674-Sl0

H.E.R.O isnt a platformer per see I guess;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpzN0fagzi8