Of Jumps and Platforms

In World 8-3 — the penultimate level of Super Mario Bros. for the NES — Mario makes his final push towards Bowser’s…

Super Mario 64 expert Pannenkoek2012 has devised a way to defeat Bowser in the game’s Dark World without ever using…

When I think of the toughest games of my childhood, the Ghosts ‘n Goblins series from Capcom immediately comes to…

Whether you want to play your classic games on the Switch, the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One, a half-sized wooden…

I spent an hour and a half tackling a single platforming sequence in Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom. Not an…

The 2014 indie hit Shovel Knight paid homage to the Nintendo Entertainment System’s pixel art and game design, but…

I’ve never enjoyed a single movement in a video game as much as the Mega Man X dash jump. I could dash jump all…

In the mid-nineties, at the approach of the millennium, the creators of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest combined…

Halo: Reach’s ninth campaign level, The Package, has a cutscene where Noble Team goes through a destroyed science…

A few hours into Titanfall 2’s unexpectedly fantastic single-player campaign, there’s a mission where everything…