What was the first "platform" game?

[sku_u]

oops

[Room 34]

Last comment on this matter... for now...

 

I've actually found that I have the most fun with some games by NOT playing them the way they're meant to be played... I bet it would be fun to play a flight sim where you just drive the plane around on the ground!

 

In fact, whenever I do bother with a flight sim, within minutes I resort to crashing my plane into the ocean and other such fun stuff. Why? Because flying a plane around safely is BORING! Flight simulators are like the Ned Flanders of video games.

[Shannon]

Well not really related to the 2600, but a friend and I on Miner 2049'er used to see how far we could get the guy to fall from the top of the screen, to the bottom without running into a platform.

 

LOL

[Shannon]

I'd call Doom an adventure game.

I don't think you'll find many people who share that opinion.

 

That sounds like a challenge if ever I heard one.

 

Anyone want to back me up on calling Doom an adventure game?

 

Either way, that's why it's called an opinion. :wink:

 

Well I'm not trying to dig up an old subject, especially since I got behind on this one. But most people consider doom a FPS.

 

First Person Shooter, a genre all unto itself.

[theaveng]

I guess you could make a case for there being (minimal) exploration in Pitfall, but the lack of puzzles still rules it out of the adventure genre.

 

The game "Adventure" doesn't have puzzles. Seems to me that game defines what an adventure should be.

 

(Then again, I might be biased. Why? Because I HATE puzzles. I don't want my adventure games like Pitfall polluted with annoying puzzles.)

[MegaManFan]

Why? Because flying a plane around safely is BORING! Flight simulators are like the Ned Flanders of video games.

 

That's why the only "flying" games worth a shit are the ones where you can shoot at other planes to bring 'em down.

[Room 34]

...and the only car racing game I ever enjoyed was Carmageddon!