"Also note the object above the curling eskimo's head. It combines both things that eventually show up in every game that has a jump button — a flying platform and a floor made out of ice."
"In the '90s, Mario suffered from King Midas syndrome: He made lots of money, but everything in the world was turning into platformers. Games about movies were platform games, games about earthworms were platform games, games about basketballers
were platform games, and basketball is already a game."
were platform games, and basketball is already a game."Ratchet jumped. And jumped. And j — seriously, what's with all the jumping?
—Captain Qwark, narrating Ratchet & Clank (2016)
Once upon a time, video games were invented, thus rescuing the human race from not having video games. A short while later someone said "These video games are great and all, but they'd be even better if they were constantly reminding me of my rate of acceleration in standard Earth gravity." And thus was born the platform game, a genre that ruled the roost for many years until it was sacrificed on the altar of 3D graphics. Turns out being able to fall off the front as well as the sides of the platform was the one step too far that would make platforming suddenly not fun.
— Zero Punctuation, review of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
