I think Super Mario Bros might have been the first. Might depend on what counts as a “platformer” or a “water level”.
Anybody have one that predates Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (1984)?
What was the first water level in a platformer?
Submitted 6 days ago by frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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who@feddit.org 6 days ago
seppesai@infosec.pub 6 days ago
Jungle Hunt was '82.
who@feddit.org 6 days ago
Huh… I see swimming through water in this video, but I don’t see platforms.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sub Hunt
who@feddit.org 6 days ago
Water, sure, but none of those are platformers.
KnitWit@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’d call frogger a platformer, but the water aspect is only aesthetic. So disagree with OP on that but for different reasons.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Upvoted, but I’m not sure frogger counts. I haven’t heard of the other two.
ideonek@piefed.social 6 days ago
I'm worried that you may be a time-traveler with a gruge.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 days ago
If you mean “water level” as in where for an isolated level you’re swimming, but not the entire game, super Mario Bros might be it
who@feddit.org 6 days ago
Released in 1985, about a year and a half after Pitfall II.
xyzzy@lemmy.today 6 days ago
Jump Bug (late 1981) is the earliest. It has an entirely underwater level, and the car moves more slowly in it. It was also one of the earliest platformers, beaten only by Donkey Kong (mid 1981) and a couple others.
Super Mario Bros. (1985) introduced a significantly different mechanic for its water levels from the rest of the game, specifically swimming. And it was about a bajillion times more popular than Jump Bug. But it wasn’t the first.