Hi. I'm currently obsessed with platformers mainly retro games before ps2. I want to learn everything there is to learn plus sum. I want to train everyday but I'm just exploring games by googling top platformers. I got a long list of games to try out from the platformer wiki. For now I'm playing prinny psp, mega man nes, crash bandicoot 1 and rayman ps1. I'm thinking about what games I should be taking seriously and others casually. Mario or sonic, what play order? Here is my to Playlist so far Impossible Mission Turrican Contra The Lost Vikings Doki Doki Penguin Land Door Door Trine Ratchet & Clank Jak and Daxter Psychonauts Sonic Adventure Jumping Flash Geograph Seal Cocoron Bonk's Adventure Strider Earthworm Jim Bionic Commando Brain Breaker Mega Man Metroid Adventure Island, Dynastic Hero, Popful Mail Shantae Alex Kidd Dragon Buster Flicky Legend of Kage Wonder Boy Pac-Land Yoshi island Vectorman Ristar Dynamite Headdy Pulseman Umihara Kawase Cave Noire (1991) I realise that some games on this list are not within the limits I mentioned earlier those games I will tackle at a later time. I am also keen to read up on available literature, tutorials, wiki etc. YouTube can be an amazing resource. I enjoy twitch for the live chat part but not sure who to follow for platformers. Looking forward to input, thanks.
I'd suggest Gunstar Heroes, and if I were to pick a Sonic game, I'd go with 2 over Adventure. 3 & Knuckles is great too. If you're into Disney, Castle of Illusion and Mickey Mania are actually pretty well done games.
Obviously, you should check out the early mascot platformers: 8/16-bit Mario, Sonic, and Bonk games (all of them). The platformer is such a significant genre, you have plenty of great games to choose from. Just play them as you learn about ones that seem interesting to you. There's certainly no correct order to play the countless platformer games out there.
I agree with everything said above. As for Mega Man, Mega Man 2 is the best one to start with in my opinion. Mega Man 1 just felt kind of meh to me, but after finishing Mega Man 2 over two dozen times I can solidly say that it's my favourite, with Mega Man X being close behind. Contra is great, but I prefer Super Contra, but both of them are unfortunately getting pretty expensive for such common games. Alex Kidd isn't the greatest but it's still fun, and same goes for Yoshi's Island (Super Mario World 2), it was just way too different to the first Super Mario World and the whole gameplay mechanic of having stupid baby Mario was annoying. Also, you haven't specified whether or not you're emulating. Do you have all these consoles?
Castlevania is a must play. I would start with Castlevania IV for the SNES. One of the best platformers with one of the best soundtracks for the SNES.
Thanks for the info. I am using emulation via lakka.tv(retro arch) on a hummingboard. My current console is a xb360.
Alrighty then, price isn't an issue for you at all. If you do end up enjoying Mega Man you should check out the Xbox Live Arcade ones, they're not too bad.
I see some good ones already in the list Mitsume ga Tooru Adventure Island 3 Flintstones Rescue of Dino and Hoppy Mr. Nutz I quite liked on the Mega Drive
