Nintendo's platform game Super Mario Brothers, released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, became the archetype for many platformers to follow. The title was bundled with Nintendo's systems in North America, Japan, and Europe, and went on to sell over 40 million copies according to the 1999 Guinness Book of World Records. Sonic the hedgehog featured large fields that scrolled effortlessly in all directions, as well as all manner of uneven terrain and in my opinion this is a better game than mario. Donkey Kong, an arcade game created by Nintendo, released in July 1981, was the first game that allowed players to jump over obstacles and across gaps, making it the first true platformer. Space Panic, a 1980 arcade release, is sometimes credited as the first platform game, but the distinction is contentious, since the player had no ability to jump, swing, or bounce, or fall, and as such, does not satisfy most modern definitions of the genre. However, it was clearly an influence on the genre.Prince of Persia is a platform game, originally developed by Jordan Mechner and released October 3, 1989 for the Apple II, that represented a great leap forward in the quality of animation seen in computer games.
