History Main / VideoGameSliding

** The original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' has a rudimentary baseball slide -- as Super Mario, you can get a running start and duck to slide through short gaps you couldn't otherwise pass through. (Small Mario has no slide move as none is necessary in that state.) This move has endured in some form throughout all subsequent 2D Mario games.

* 'VideoGame/{{REAVER}}'' features sliding as one of the primary movement mechanics. The player can slide infinitely and even drift when necessary.

* In ''Videogame/Borderlands3'' the player characters can perform a slide maneuver that can be augmented by Relics so that it has secondary effects such as firing projectiles or leaving behind a trail of magma.

* Along with his ice powers, Sub-Zero from the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series has a sliding kick among his arsenal of moves. It debuted in the first ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' and appears across many other entries in the series. Later entries often justify it by him using his ice powers to freeze the ground beneath him as he slides.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' introduced sliding in the fifth installment (''Assassin's Creed 3'') as a quick way to get under low obstacles such as holes at the bottom of fences or scaffolding. There are many such instances in both Boston and New York, especially in the underground tunnels. Though such openings can be hard to spot during free-running, utilizing one is a good way to put a lot of distance between you and any chasing opponents, since they cannot replicate the move. Sliding is triggered when running full-speed into a suitable obstacle.

* ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'': One of Samus's new abilities is sliding, which is done by pressing ZL while moving. This enables her to move under certain enemies and squeeze through tight spaces without the Morph Ball, though Samus can't use this to get through elevated gaps, and she can't slide at all while underwater.

* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', Batman's sliding skills are so great he can slide ''up'' a flight of stairs. But then, so can Robin, Nightwing, and Catwoman. Catwoman's upstairs slide is especially hilarious considering she slides on her ''knees''.

* The classic ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'' games gave Rick a baseball-style sliding kick maneuver, which was fairly hard to pull off (you had to jump and then input the command at the exact moment Rick landed), [[DifficultButAwesome but also pretty powerful].

Supertrope of SlideAttack. Sister trope of VideogameDashing, which is often handled in similar ways.

* Along with his ice powers, Sub-Zero from the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series has a sliding kick among his arsenal of moves. It debuted in the first ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' and appears across many other entries in the series. Later entries often justify it by him using his ice powers to freeze the ground beneath him as he slides.

One of the most important considerations in game design -- particularly ''action'' game design -- is how the player character is going to be able to move within the game. It may seem hard to believe now, but during the medium's infancy, giving players a wide range of movements simply wasn't possible due to hardware limitations. At one point, simply being able to make your character ''jump'' was considered state-of-the-art game design.[[note]]Particularly with ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'', which [[UrExample was the first game to give the player character the ability to jump]].[[/note]]

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', Mega Man and Joker have a sliding kick as tilt attacks, while Bayonetta has a sliding kick as a special move. Mega Man and Bayonetta also had these moves in the previous installment.

* ''[[VideoGame/MetalSlug Metal Slug 5]]'' introduced sliding, which allows you to shoot during the slide and/or jump immediately afterward. Interestingly, however, none of the later entries in the series kept the sliding mechanic.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' introduced sliding in the fifth installment (''Assassin's Creed 3'') as a quick way to get under low obstacles such as holes at the bottom of fences or scaffolding. There are many such instances in both Boston and New York, especially in the underground tunnels. Though such openings can be hard to spot during free-running, utilizing one is a good way to put a lot of distance between you and any chasing opponents, since they cannot replicate the move. Sliding is triggered when running full-speed into a suitable obstacle.
** Sliding downhill also occurs in this and previous games in the series, but is typically part of scripted missions and thus not manually-triggered.
* You can Baseball Slide for an extremely long distance in ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'', especially considering how much momentum you need to do it.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' has rolling which is a commonly fast way of traveling, and it's also assigned to a ContextSensitiveButton.