Is it just me or does Super mario Bros Wii remind you of little big planet?

[thetonestarr]

SJGohan3972 said:

arsenal009 said:
That's strange. I always figured every platformer out there including LBP copied mario & not vice versa.

To be fair Mario was not the first platformer... Space Panic holds that title (a few others dispute it but its safe to say its not a mario title).

Donkey Kong (the arcade game that introduced Jumpman (mario)) is arguably to first platformer to introduce jumping, and later mario bros had side scrolling (didn't introduce this but was the first to make it popular).

 

So to sum up, not every platformer is inspired from Mario - just any platformer with jumping and/or side scrolling leves :)

By the genre's very core definition, you HAVE to be able to jump in a platformer. So Space Panic isn't a proper platformer.

 

However, there's a game from 1978 ("Frogs") that has all the mechanics of a platformer - including jumping - and is older than Space Panic anyways.