17 Sub-Genres of Platformer Games | List

Platformers (otherwise known as 'platform games') are easily my favourite type of video game, from the popular titles such as Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog and Crash Bandicoot to more obscure gems like Skullmonkeys, Tombi! and Heart of Darkness. I enjoy every form of platformer and I've played quite a few of them, both new and old!

So maybe you've played a platformer and you're wondering how to catagorise it to find similar titles, or maybe you're interested to know how varied games can be that are basically all about jumping from platform to platform, maybe you just want a lesson on the brief history of platformers, or you don't even know exactly what defines a game as a platformer. Well, if you're thinking any of those things you're in the right place, because I'm about to go through 17 sub-genres of plaformer games, starting from the most traditional, to the more obscure.

Crash Bandicoot | Review

Developer: Naughty Dog

Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment & Universal Interactive Studios

Reviewed on: PlayStation

Available on: PlayStation

Released: September 9th 1996

Crash Bandicoot is a 3D platformer created by Naughty Dog (the studio behind the Jak and Daxter, Uncharted and The Last of Us games) in 1996. It's one of the first games I ever played and one which I've played many times since and what better time to talk about it seeing as it's recently been revealed that a HD remake of Crash Bandicoot and it's two sequels is being developed.

Crash Bandicoot was created with the intention of introducing a new mascot for the newly released PlayStation, in a similar way to how Nintendo had Mario and Sega had Sonic. Although Crash never officially became the PlayStation mascot, he was unofficially known as such and his name became synonymous with the console. If you owned a PlayStation the odds are you will have had a Crash Bandicoot game, they were must-have titles which everyone remembers fondly, but, does Crash's first outing deserve the acclaim the series went on to gain?