AppleQueso wrote:
Not platformers by most accepted views.
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I have never met anybody who held the view that Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. weren't platformers.
If they aren't platformers, then what are they?[/quote]
Arcade games.... Or something. I would never really call Donkey Kong a platformer. And Mario Bros. isn't a platformer either.
What would you call a game where you run around on one solid surface just jumping over enemies as they come? Whatever that answer is, I say that's what Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. are. Either way, they should be distinguished from Super Mario Bros. type platformers.