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It literally looks like Rayman Run clone. Not that it's a bad thing, Rayman Run is excellent, but I don't think Nintendo is pioneering anything here.

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They are pioneering for themselves. Nintendo's increasing participation in mobile platforms is very exciting even if they aren't particularly revolutionary in their releases.

Execution is important though, and Nintendo might surprise here.

Just like Rayman Run is a clone of some other thing.

Pretty sure Canabalt was the first real runner on ios.

Canabalt is an "infinite runner" game. It isn't close to the same genre/ style as the Rayman games (which are action/ puzzle games, where you have to find and use dexterity to collect 100 "Lums" in each of the many small levels).

First endless runner anywhere! Invented the genre.

Hmm... I'm not sure about that.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/bill-gates-and-donkey-bas/

http://segaretro.org/Drivemobile

WarioWare came out in 2003 and included what is (if I understand the term correctly) an infinite runner

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=65xStDAjNCM

At the very least, there were one- and two-button runners in Flash for some time before Canabalt.

I think Canabalt is like Doom or Super Mario Brothers--it was the first really polished implemention of its genre that showed its full potential and led to an explosion of other games, but it didn't invent the core concept.

I think Aztec Challenge on Commodore 64 might have a strong claim here.

It's not an infinite runner, though - you move on to other levels. You eventually go back to start and have to go through everything over and over, but the running part is punctuated.

3D World Runner for NES?

Rayman Run is in landscape mode. Huge difference IMO.

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