In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time.
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: it’s The Big One. The game that would change the medium forever: Super Mario 64 There’s an old quote I love … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1996: Super Mario 64
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: we check out Jumping Flash! and see what the first attempts at 3D platforming looked like Last month, we talked about … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1995: Jumping Flash!
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: we get a taste of that alluring 3D flavor in Donkey Kong Country With the benefit of hindsight, we tend to … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1994: Donkey Kong Country
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: the Blue Bomber gets an edgy 90s makeover in Mega Man X The Mega Man games are some of the absolute … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1993: Mega Man X
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: Kirby’s Dream Land provides a friendlier vision for what a platformer can be. Last month, I talked about Sonic The Hedgehog, … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1992: Kirby’s Dream Land
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: Mario gets a super fast, super cool rival in Sonic The Hedgehog In the late 80s and early 90s, Nintendo dominated … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1991: Sonic The Hedgehog
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: we enter the 16-bit era with Super Mario World These days, new console generations are pretty unexciting. The PlayStation 5 and … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1990: Super Mario World
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: we take our first foray into the world of PC gaming with Prince of Persia So far in this series, we’ve … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1989: Prince of Persia
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: Mario closes out his NES era with Super Mario Bros. 3 The original Super Mario Bros. was the game that defined the platformer … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1988: Super Mario Bros. 3
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: evil scientist Dr. Wily meets his match in Mega Man We’ve covered a lot of groundbreaking, innovative titles so far in … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1987: Mega Man
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: the bounty hunter Samus Aran explores the alien planet of Zebes in Metroid In last month’s article, we examined Super Mario … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1986: Metroid
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: no more precursors, it’s time for Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. is either the first or second most important game I’m going … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1985: Super Mario Bros.
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: the strange, forgotten, and massively influential Pac-Land For the past 3 months, we’ve been looking at the platformer’s earliest days, at … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1984: Pac-Land
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: we’re halfway between Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. with just plain Mario Bros. In the year of A Lord 2020, … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1983: Mario Bros.
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: the platformer comes home, with Pitfall! In the early days of the game industry, the arcade was the primary focus. That’s where … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1982: Pitfall!
In One Giant Leap, Dramus18 charts the evolution of the platformer genre, one year at a time. This month: it’s the game that started it all: Donkey Kong. It’s rare that the first work in a given genre is also the … Continue reading One Giant Leap, 1981: Donkey Kong
