Video games have been around for over 50 years and are still going strong today. Games have changed in many ways since the time they started. They went from space war and basic pong to call of duty and the elder scrolls. With the massive amounts of games out there we need to classify them into groups. We will be discussing Platformers,role playing games, and shooters. Platformers are games where the basic gameplay consists of jumping across platforms.
The first platformer was Donkey Kong in the arcades. The game that made platformers big was super mario bros for the Nintendo Entertainment System. After that game got popular platforming games started popping up everywhere. Mario once again revolutionized the genre with super mario 64 which