Definition of "platformer" [platformer]

• A platform game. (noun)

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• "It pretty much created what we know as a platformer today and introduced us to the world of the Super Mario Bros., which is a world I'm not sure I would like to live in if they didn't exist in it."
• "Even though we've already spent all of 2009 plumbing its procedurally generated depths -- over, and over, and over, and over -- on PC, the forthcoming console port of Derek Yu's retro-platformer is worth watching for all the ways in which it won't be a port."
• "Secondly, while the original Kingdom Hearts could be called a platformer-RPG, Kingdom Hearts II features almost no platforming elements."