Category description: Today more often referred to as a "platformer" or "platform game", Super Mario inspired countless other games where the primary mechanic involves running, jumping, and sometimes even flying around the levels. Commander Keen, the unofficial mascot of the site, was an early example on the PC.
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Crazy Drake

Views: 14,7341996SharewareSidescrolling One RealityNeurotech Software
Crazy Drake is a duck / superhero who clearly is aspiring to be Earthworm Jim. The SNES / Genesis game starring an … VIEW

Crazy Sue

Views: 10,3631991FreewareSidescrolling MC Publications
Crazy Sue is a platforming game, which is a conversion (apparently for a German magazine in the early 90's) of an Amiga … VIEW

Crystal Caves

Views: 28,0071990Shareware (Full version available)Sidescrolling Apogee Software
An interesting (although in many ways average) EGA sidescroller created by Apogee right around the same time as the … VIEW

Crystal Jane

Views: 8,3742004FreewareSidescrolling Upr00ted Tree Software
This platforming game is as basic as it gets. It seems like a "first game" sort of project that, while incredibly … VIEW

Cuke Land

Views: 5,8691994FreewareSidescrolling Hugo Windisch
Cuke Land is a virtually unknown EGA platforming game with decent graphics and controls. Its design is a bit unintuitive … VIEW

Cyril Cyberpunk aka Cyberboard Kid

Views: 11,9801996SharewareSidescrolling Reality Studios
Cyril Cyberpunk (aka Cyberboard Kid in some areas) is a platforming game along the lines of mid/late 90's platformers … VIEW

Dangerous Dave

Before creating Keen, Wolfenstein, and Doom, John Romero was programming small games for SoftDisk, which back then … VIEW

Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement

Views: 5,8601990FreewareSidescrolling John Carmack & Tom Hall
This is not so much a game as it is a tech demo, but what a tech demo it was back in 1990. Future id Software superstar … VIEW

Dark Ages

Views: 18,9601991Full versionSidescrolling Scenario SoftwareApogee Software
This game was pretty high tech back in '91. Today, Dark Ages seems a little dated, and gameplay-wise it doesn't have … VIEW

Darkwolf

Views: 10,9461994SharewareSidescrolling D'India Software
This simple platform game contains some interesting concepts, such as the ability to have and use different magic powers … VIEW

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