The set of platforms is a Type of video game in which the principal stress is laid on the skill that the player has to control the displacement of his misadventure. In Donkey Kong , often regarded as the first play of the kind, the misadventure climbing the successive platforms of a scaffolding to carry help to a captive princess, thus the name of this new kind was found. In the typical sets of platforms in 2D, the misadventure jumps from platform in platform.

Presentation

A set of platforms generally presents a simple objective requiring the achievement of several levels of play, all filled of traps and offensive elements (mainly of the enemies). The last levels of the play generally require a tight Timing to pass the series of obstacles placed at the Pixel near. Although the first plays of the kind are presented as plays to a player in 2D where a level is posted complete with the screen ( Donkey Kong ), they were very quickly declined by using displacements of camera ( Super Mario Bros. , Rayman ); several simultaneous players ( Super Mario Bros. 2 ); with the limit of the 3D ( Pandemonium ); in 3D off ( Prince Persia objectifies: sands of time , Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc , Super Mario 64 ).

The majority of the plays of the kind are surrealist and present a world very Cartoon, but of the more realistic plays exist ( Another World , Flashback , Prince off Persia ), often with the limit of the kind.

Famous series

• Castlevania
• Crash landing Bandicoot
• Donkey Kong
• Jak and Daxter
• Mario
• Megaman
• Ratchet & Clank
• Rayman
• Sly
• Sonic

Appendix

• chronological List of the sets of platforms

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