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, 2 years agoHow about some games by the guy who popularized the indie game market. I know Kero Blaster technically started out with a game called "Pink Hour", but most sources call that a "demo" for Kero, so I'm very unsure on whether I should count it as the first installment.
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(How about some games by the guy who popularized the indie game market. I know Kero Blaster technically started out with a game called "Pink Hour", but most sources call that a "demo" for Kero, so I'm very unsure on whether I should count it as the first installment.) |
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'''''Zero Escape''''' ({{ja|ゼロ エスケープ|Zero Esukēpu}}, ''Zero Escape''; originally known as {{ja|極限脱出|Kyokugen Dasshutsu}}, ''Extreme Escape'') is a series of adventure games by Spike Chunsoft that follows a group of nine individuals, who are kidnapped and held captive by a person code-named "Zero", and are forced to play a game of life and death to escape. The gameplay is divided into two types of sections: Novel sections, where the story is presented, and Escape sections, where the player solves escape-the-room puzzles. The stories branch based on player choices, and include multiple endings. | '''''Zero Escape''''' ({{ja|ゼロ エスケープ|Zero Esukēpu}}, ''Zero Escape''; originally known as {{ja|極限脱出|Kyokugen Dasshutsu}}, ''Extreme Escape'') is a series of adventure games by Spike Chunsoft that follows a group of nine individuals, who are kidnapped and held captive by a person code-named "Zero", and are forced to play a game of life and death to escape. The gameplay is divided into two types of sections: Novel sections, where the story is presented, and Escape sections, where the player solves escape-the-room puzzles. The stories branch based on player choices, and include multiple endings. | ||
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===Studio Pixel series=== | |||
====''Cave Story''==== | |||
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|title = Cave Story (universe) | |||
|image = [[File:Cave Story logo.png|250px]] | |||
|developer = Studio Pixel<br>Nicalis | |||
|publisher = Studio Pixel<br>Nicalis<br>NIS America | |||
|genres = Platformer<br>Metroidvania | |||
|originconsole = Microsoft Windows | |||
|firstinstallment = ''{{s|wikipedia|Cave Story}}'' (2004) | |||
|latestinstallment = ''{{s|wikipedia|Cave Story+}}'' (2011) | |||
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'''''Cave Story''''' ({{ja|洞窟物語|Dōkutsu Monogatari}}, ''Cave Story'') is a Metroidvania indie platformer game created by Daisuke Amaya (under the pseudonym "Pixel") that revolves around Quote, an amnesiac robot who awakens in a cave atop a floating island and must escape while also trying to figure out his origins. Along the way, Quote can speak to the inhabitants of the island, a race of rabbit-like creatures called "Mimiga", in order to learn more about the world and gains access to new areas as he powers up his weapons by collecting triangular experience crystals and solves various platforming puzzles. | |||
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====''Ikachan''==== | |||
{{Infobox Series | |||
|title = Ikachan (universe) | |||
|image = [[File:Ikachan logo.png|250px]] | |||
|developer = Studio Pixel | |||
|publisher = Studio Pixel<br>Nicalis<br>Pikii | |||
|genres = Platformer<br>Metroidvania | |||
|originconsole = Microsoft Windows | |||
|firstinstallment = ''{{s|wikipedia|Ikachan}}'' (2000) | |||
|latestinstallment = ''Ikachan'' (2000) | |||
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'''''Ikachan''''' ({{ja|いかちゃん|Ikachan}}, ''Squid-chan'') is a Metroidvania indie platformer game created by Daisuke Amaya (under the pseudonym "Pixel") that follows the titular squid, who awakens inside and must escape the realm of an iron helmet-wearing fish named Ironhead, which had experienced cave-ins from an earthquake that cut if off from the open sea. | |||
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====''Kero Blaster''==== | |||
{{Infobox Series | |||
|title = Kero Blaster (universe) | |||
|image = [[File:Kero Blaster logo.png|250px]] | |||
|developer = Studio Pixel | |||
|publisher = Playism | |||
|genres = Platformer | |||
|originconsole = Microsoft Windows<br>Apple iOS | |||
|firstinstallment = ''{{s|wikipedia|Kero Blaster}}'' (2014) | |||
|latestinstallment = ''Kero Blaster'' (2014) | |||
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'''''Kero Blaster''''' ({{ja|ケロブラスター|Kero Burasutā}}, ''Kero Blaster'') is an indie platformer game created by Daisuke Amaya (under the pseudonym "Pixel") that revolves around a bipedal frog working for Cat & Frog, a teleporter company, who must clean the teleporters of strange black monsters with a peashooter, all while working his way through a series of linear stages by means of running, gunning, and jumping. | |||
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