A platformer title starring Valkyrie's lizard friend Xandra. In the game, which plays as a prequel of the Valkyrie games, you control Xandra as he leaves his enchanted forest in order to get help for his family. This will eventually lead him to meet up with our beloved Valkyrie and mark the beginning of their adventures.
Xandra has all the abilities of a standard platformer character, which allow him to jump around and navigate the many obstacles found in the game. Additionally he's armed with a pitchfork which he can use to impale his enemies and stick to some surfaces. Collecting coins allow him to purchase extra lives, but there are no added weapons or spells as in the Valkyrie games.
Putty is a game developed by System 3 and released in 1992 for the Amiga.
In Putty, the player controls a blue blob with eyes. Putty has many moves that he could use to attack enemies or to navigate around the level. These abilities include being able to stretch out upwards, downwards, left and right to access far-off ledges. He also has the ability to inflate. This allows him to provide a cushioned landing for any falling bots. Over-inflation also acts as a "smart bomb", with Putty bursting, killing all of the enemies on the screen, whilst reducing his health in the process.
The levels in Putty are laid out vertically, with the screen scrolling up and down. The levels contain regular platforms, as well as "solid" ledges that Putty can not move through, and other special tiles including electric platforms and bounce pads.
Wani Wani World is a reskinned Berlin no Kabe released by Kaneko in 1992 exclusively on the Sega Mega Drive.
Charlie and Smiley, make their way through numerous screens of platforms and ladders filled with enemies. Their only method of attack is to bash a hole in the ground, wait for an enemy to fall into it, and then bash the enemy in the head, which causes the enemy to fall and transform into items and delicious food.
The PAL version of Dragon's Lair expands upon the Japanese version, still having a good speed, but adding new enemy types and cutscenes in-between levels.
Contrary to other multiregional games at the time, the PAL version is a lot faster than the original NTSC version, despite the refresh rate being lower.
"Paaman (or quite possibly Parman) is a comic in Japan which is done by the same guy who did Doraemon. Like that wasn’t already obvious just by looking at ‘em. All of the four characters that you have the choice of controlling have the amazing ability to fly in an amazingly awkward fashion. I don’t think there’s any difference in who you want to pick though. What’s awkward about flying is, if you’re flying Up and want to go Left, you don’t just automatically go Left when you hit the control pad… you go diagonally, then you go left. And you don’t sit still if you let go of the control pad, you have to hit A to stop. And then you have to hit A again to fall to the ground and walk around like normal. Which is all very weird. But you can jump REALLY high, so that’s cool.
There’s a side view, where you can fly, like what I was just talking about, and there’s a top view, where you walk around inside of buildings and stuff. You can’t fly though, but you can jump, which is pretty useless. What’
Tsurupika Hagemaru: Mezase! Tsuruseko no Akashi is 2D platforming game released for the Famicom (NES) in 1991. The game is based on a Japanese children's manga and 58-episode anime series called Tsurupika Hagemaru (Little Baldy Hagemaru), and features many of its characters including protagonist Hagemaru whom the player controls.
The Pizza Boy must deliver pizzas to various dangerous locations in order to make enough money to buy his girlfriend an engagement ring. He is thwarted by many enemies, including his romantic rival who appears frequently to take him down. Points are scored at the end of each stage based on completing stages quickly, defeating enemies and recovering extra pizzas.
Like its sister game Snow Bros., Pipi & Bibi's is an early platform game in the vein of Bubble Bobble where players must defeat all on-screen enemies before moving on to the next level.
The Addams Family is a side-scrolling platformer based on the movie of the same name. The player takes the role of Gomez who searches for his missing family members. To find them he has to explore six different parts of the mansion, e.g. the woods, which are basic platform levels: the player moves from left to right while jumping a lot and avoiding enemies. Some of them can be dispatched of by a jump on their heads.
The main difference to the other versions of this game is a unique level design. There is also a life meter which allows to get hit more often before dying.
Scrapyard Dog is a 2D-sidescrolling platform game in which you play as Louie, a boy whose dog has been kidnapped by Mr. Big. Fight your way through more then 15 levels in this adventure to rescue Louie's pup!
The game features multiple world with different themes like junkyard, forest and desert.
Sonic the Hedgehog was one of the games adapted for release in arcades for the Mega Play hardware. While the Mega-Tech version is largely the same game as the original, the Mega Play version has lots of gameplay differences.
Boomerang Kid is an unlicensed game released with the Quattro Adventure compilation for the NES. It is a platformer developed by Codemasters in which the player controls a boy who has to recover his boomerangs.
TaleSpin is a game based on the television series of the same name, released for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive in 1991 and 1992. There's also a Game Gear port which is identical to the Genesis version.
The game was a one player and two player game. In single player mode you could choose between playing as Baloo or Kit, whereas in two player mode, the first player was Baloo and the second player was Kit.
Each character had his own form of defense, Baloo had a paddle ball with very short range while Kit had a slingshot with very long range.
It consisted of many stages with three different versions:
Around the World: Strolling through each stage collecting ten or more boxes of cargo to unlock the main exit.
Airport: The Boss stages where you face Don Karnage and his air pirate henchmen.
Air Battle: You take to the air with Baloo attacking from the Sea Duck or Kit on his airfoil firing his catapult.
Fred is a platform game, where the player controls a caveman, walking horizontally through the levels. Like in nearly every platform game, there are hanging platforms for the caveman to jump on, though sometimes parts of the platforms give way. Climbable ropes also appear.