platformer
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platformers
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a type of video game in which the player moves an avatar through an environment filled with obstacles, primarily by running and jumping; platform game.
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a digital service or company that hosts, distributes, or amplifies media content.
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Other contenders for the top game prize this year are Death Stranding 2, Nintendo platformer Donkey Kong Bananza, indie games Hollow Knight: Silksong and Hades 2, and medieval adventure Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
Organisers say there were 154 million livestreams in 2024, when platformer Astro Bot was named Game of the Year.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
The initial reaction to this 3D platformer was cautious, and some fans wondered if the gameplay - which sees gaming's most famous ape smashing his way through destructible levels - would be a bit one-note.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
When you think of a platformer, you probably think of jumping.
From The Verge ● Sep. 8, 2022
It’s sort of like the inverse of Super Mario Run, another mobile take on the platformer but one where jumping is the central way to interact with the world.
From The Verge ● Sep. 8, 2022
Even so, a few hosts like Stewart have featured projects by filmmakers and authors who otherwise wouldn’t receive exposure on major TV platformers.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2024
"They are both platformers but take very different approaches to things," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
It’s an absolute must for fans of Mario, platformers as a whole, or just about anyone who owns a Switch.
From The Verge ● Feb. 2, 2022
Urquhart: Going back to Mario 64, what I love about 3D Mario games—and 3D platformers more broadly—is this feeling of freedom.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2021
Thereafter we wound round beautiful Lake Amatitlan, a dark, smooth stretch of water, swarming with fish and bottomless, according to my fellow platformers, flanked by sloping, green, shrub-clad banks that reflected themselves in it.
From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck
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