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platform game

British  

noun

  1. a type of computer game that is played by moving a figure on the screen through a series of obstacles and problems

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But when that platform game was released in 2021, it was regarded as a critical failure.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2022

Next, a video we found showing Rittenhouse as a video game character on a platform game.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2020

On the top of that list is Astro Bot: Rescue Mission, the endlessly clever and inventive 3D platform game from Sony’s own storied Japan Studio.

From The Verge • Dec. 20, 2018

It's a devastatingly-indie, Procedurally–Generated, Physics-based, Online Deathmatch platform game from multi award-winning developer Size Five Games.

From The Guardian • May 9, 2013

But not the fifty-year-old, 2-D, side-scrolling platform game that I had mastered.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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