Platformers: jumping and running sorted by release date

Platform games

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  Kangaroo

  DOS19823/5
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  Alley Cat

  DOS19844.3/5 Synapse Software

  Alley Cat is an arcade platform game designed by Bill Williams, developed by Synapse and released for IBM in 1984. As a cat, your goal is to jump around the neighborhood, enter apartments - each being a mini-game - to find your lost loved one.

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  Below The Root

  DOS19843.7/5 Dale Disharoon, Inc.

  Below the root is an atipycal early 2 dimensional adventure game based on the Zilpha Keatley Snyder novels: the Green Sky Trilogy. The player can choose one of many characters, each with different skills and embark in a quest to eliminate the distrust between two races: the Erdling and the Kindar.

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  Bomb Jack

  DOS19844.5/5 Tecmo

  Bomb Jack is a classic arcade platform game developed and published by Tecmo in 1984. The goal of the game is to collect bombs while avoiding enemies; the whole game takes place in a fixed screen. Bomb Jack for DOS is a conversion from the arcade original version. The arcade and the conversions were a huge commercial success.

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  Hard Hat Mack

  DOS19844/5
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  Janitor Joe

  DOS19843/5
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  Jumpman

  DOS19843.9/5 Epyx
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  Montezuma's Revenge

  DOS19844.2/5 Parker Brothers
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  Antarctic Adventure

  DOS19863.6/5 Konami
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  Rad Warrior

  DOS19863.8/5 Palace Software
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  Airball

  DOS19873.3/5 MicroDeal
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  Aldo's Adventure

  DOS1987remake3.9/5 Yahoo Software
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  Dark Castle

  DOS19873.7/5 Silicon Beach Software
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  Dizzy

  DOS19874.1/5 Codemasters
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  Goody

  DOS19873.7/5 Opera Soft
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  Karnov

  DOS19873.4/5 Data East
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  The Great Giana Sisters

  DOS1987remake4/5
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  The Last Mission

  DOS19873.5/5 Opera Soft
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  Thexder

  DOS19873.6/5 Game Arts
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  Bionic Commando

  DOS19883/5 Capcom
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  Freddy Hardest

  DOS19883.6/5 Dinamic Multimedia
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  Game Over

  DOS19882.9/5 Dinamic Multimedia

  Game Over is an abandoned side scrolling shooter/platform game designed by Ignacio Ruiz Tejedor, Pedro Sudón Aguilar, developed and released by Dinamic Multimedia in 1988 for DOS. Game Over isn't exactly one of the best games ever made... be prepared for clunky controls and repetitive level design that may test your patience.

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  Impossible Mission 2

  DOS19884.3/5 Novotrade Software
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  Nebulus

  DOS19884.1/5 Hewson Consultants
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  Night Hunter

  DOS19883.8/5 UBI Soft
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  Starquake

  DOS19884/5 Bubble Bus Software

  Starquake is a weird DOS science fiction platform game developed by Bubble Bus Software in 1988 and designed by Stephen Crow and Dave Collins. The Commodore 64 version boasts a wonderful soundtrack. Unfortunately, the PC version comes with CGA graphics and no soundtrack.

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  Aldo Again

  DOS1989remake4/5
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  Artura

  DOS19893.2/5 Arcadia Systems
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  Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior

  DOS19893.8/5 Psygnosis
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  Eye of Horus

  DOS19894.1/5 Denton Designs