

The PlayStation is the iconic, trail-blazing console designed and developed by Sony. This should give you some idea of how much emphasis is placed on collectibles, with 1 being minimal (such as Conker's Bad Fur Day) and 5 being excessive to the point of ludicrousness (e.g. 3D platformers video games for PS1 sorted by popularity among gamers.

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Either way, I'm stoked to see the "pure" 3D platformer model make a return to the big stage.Īs a public service similar in manner to the "Aged Well" rating for the older items in my PC Games Memento list, I've also included a " TACO Hell" rating with each of the following 3D platformers. In the present day, the genre's either fizzled out with the exception of big names like Mario or Ratchet & Clank, or they've evolved to become open-world games (depending on your interpretation of whether the two are closely linked or not). As well as the vast number of terrible licensed platformers, which didn't skip a beat in their unimaginative aping of bigger games when switching to 3D, there's a few gems that I somehow ignored.ģD platformers are one of my favorite genres, because they appeal to both my pre-existing love of their 2D ancestors and to my obsessive need to hunt for collectibles. Here's a list of all the 3D platformers I've played, and my thoughts on them. A critical and commercial success, it stood alongside Super Mario 64 and Spyro the Dragon as one of the early icons. This was the era that gave us Spyro the Dragon, Crash Bandicoot, Gex: Enter the Gecko, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, Conkers Bad Fur Day, and Rayman 2: The Great Escape.
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This was something I meant to put together closer to the announcement that Yooka-Laylee had been successfully funded. In 1998, a 3D platformer named Banjo-Kazooie was released for the Nintendo 64. Super Mario 64 was not the first 3D Platformer, but it was the best of the early batch and popularized the genre.The second half of the 1990s was full of game studios trying their hand at making their own jumping mascots.
