This group collects the Interactive and Networked Media Landmarks subcategory's members whose own description names them a platform game or platform fighting game, spanning the genre's arcade origin (Donkey Kong) through its console-defining franchises Super Mario Bros., Super Mario 64, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man, Kirby's Dream Land and Castlevania, and the platform-fighting hybrid Super Smash Bros., which is filed here rather than under this subcategory's Action-Adventure Games group because platformer is the more specific genre term its own description uses.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Platformer, History sectionQuote, Wikipedia: Platformer, History section
Donkey Kong, released in 1981, established a template for what were initially called "climbing games".
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