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platform game

British

noun

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

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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

Media Molecule's creation is both a humble platform game, and a platform for others to make games on -- at once, big and little.

From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2014

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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