Post your favourite 2d platformers with screenshots. Preferably somewhat obscure - by io organic industrialism
demagogue on 25/9/2008 at 01:24
Gargoyles - Sega. Looks good and plays fast, once you get the moves down.
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http://i36.tinypic.com/9awfmq.pngAutumn into Summer - Knytt Stories mod.
It's just beautiful, easily my favorite mod for Knytt Stories.
It should also be noted that the post-rock soundtrack is awesome.
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http://i38.tinypic.com/53whh4.jpgPsychosomnium - Indie PC game. Retro and surreal. (by a guy called (
http://cactusquid.proboards99.com/) CactusMilk. I recommend you take a look at his other games, too.)
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http://i37.tinypic.com/727lom.jpgHonorable mentions in the retro-surreal indie platform category are SpaceFuck and La La Land, and this one:
Space Barnacle - PC indie.
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http://i37.tinypic.com/2iszdb6.pngLegend of Shadow - 2004 Retro-Remake Contest winner, remake of the old NES game.
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http://i37.tinypic.com/ncbf45.jpgEdit: ah, I didn't see you ask about the C64 at first. Never thought of it as "European centric". Anyway, for the C64 (putting aside classics like The Last Ninja and Fist II: TLC, which you should definitely try, some more obscure ones are):
Doriath - C64. A dungeon crawl platformer.
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http://i33.tinypic.com/25ga35h.gifThe following two, not sure if they count exactly as "platformers" or not. Both of them are more like strategy games in a "2D platformer" package. But I like them:
Shogun - C64.
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http://i37.tinypic.com/ruraeu.gifRags to Riches - C64Inline Image:
http://i37.tinypic.com/2ivnxjs.gifNeb on 25/9/2008 at 03:32
I can't find a screenshot, but there was a game I played probably in 1998 called Time Slip on a Net Yaroze demo disk for the Playstation.
The graphics were rudimentary, but the gameplay was fantastically insane. For seemingly no reason at all you play as a snail which can fire energy balls, but that's not the point. At the top of the screen is a clock with one hand which patiently ticks round. Every time it reaches 12 your past self spawns and carries out everything you just did. You need to use your past selves to solve puzzles, but if you touch any of them, the fabric of space-time eats itself and everyone dies. Your strategy inevitably ends up with you frantically trying to mentally project what you probably will be doing in the future and leaving enough room for half a dozen versions of yourself to jump over each other without causing an apocalypse, while operating doors by standing on platforms to let future you progress.
It was from a Playstation disk which I borrowed off someone ten years ago. I wish I hadn't given it back, because odds are that disk is now dead. :mad:
EvaUnit02 on 25/9/2008 at 05:05
Scot, care to mention the names of these games, thanks?
(The first two are obviously from the Dizzy series, but which ones?)
june gloom on 25/9/2008 at 05:14
That last one is from Flashback, a damn fine game.
Scots Taffer on 25/9/2008 at 06:44
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Scot, care to mention the names of these games, thanks?
(The first two are obviously from the Dizzy series, but which ones?)
Fantasy Land Dizzy
Treasure Island Dizzy
Flashback
I think there are one or two other dizzys worth checking, the original is very hard to ever get a hold of.
Haplo on 25/9/2008 at 07:06
Seconded.
