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Jump Bug (1981) introduced scrolling to the genre. The first platformer to use scrolling graphics came years before the genre became popular. [31] Jump Bug is a platform-shooter developed by Alpha Denshi under contract for Hoei/Coreland [32] and released to arcades in 1981, only five months after Donkey Kong. [33]
The jump from single-screen or flip-screen graphics to scrolling graphics during the golden age of arcade games was a pivotal leap in game design, comparable to the move to 3D graphics during the fifth generation. [1] Hardware support of smooth scrolling backgrounds is built into many arcade video games, some game
Jump Bug [a] is a 1981 scrolling shooter platform game developed by Alpha Denshi under contract for Hoei Corporation. [4] It was distributed in arcades by Sega in Japan and Europe, and by Rock-Ola in North America. [1] The player controls a bouncing Volkswagen-esque car in a forced scrolling world. The car can eliminate enemies by shooting them ...
A vertically scrolling video game or vertical scroller is a video game in which the player views the field of play principally from a top-down perspective, while the background scrolls from the top of the screen to the bottom (or, less often, from the bottom to the top) to create the illusion that the player character is moving in the game world.
Vehicle-oriented platform games, like Jump Bug (1981) and Moon Patrol (1982), added both jumping and shooting as ways to deal with obstacles in continually scrolling levels. The home game B.C.'s Quest for Tires (1983) uses the forced-scrolling and jumping gameplay of Moon Patrol .
The jumping killer tomato is an enemy. The features in the display bar, from left to right, are the player's score, number of lives, number of flies, and health. Gex is a side-scrolling platformer that follows the title character Gex, an anthropomorphic , television-obsessed gecko who must travel through the "media dimension" and defeat the ...
It is played on two-dimensional, side-scrolling maps typical of the platformer genre, but uses FPS-style keyboard controls for moving, switching weapons and chatting. The game also sports a grappling hook and double jump mechanics for maneuvering. Grappling hooks can also be used to hook other tees and pull them towards the player.
Side-scrolling role-playing video games (2 C, 56 P) Pages in category "Side-scrolling video games" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 527 total.