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I wish Jazz had been more popular. I loved Jazz Jackrabbit 1 and 2, and I believe there were plans to make a third, but they decided it wouldn’t sell enough copies. If anyone here can recommend platformers similar to Jazz that run on a Mac, I’d love to play them. I never got into shooters or 3D games, but always enjoyed platformers like Mario and Contra, and Jazz felt perfect for me.

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I would check out Celeste or Shovel Knight. Neither is exactly the run and gun style of Contra or Jazz. However, Celeste is extraordinarily polished with best-in-class controls and movement, and Shovel Knight borrows heavily from classics like Mega Man while ditching the stuff that didn't age as well.

Both best in class, but two quite different classes from JJ.

Cave Story+, Rogue Legacy 1, Spelunky, Broforce, Spiritfarer and/or Fez may be to your liking.

Can recommend Spiritfarer, its a really chill platformer!

Broforce is great, and fun if you play with buddies. Up to 4 players.

a good chunk of the third exists and is playable

it's not very good though (except the music, Alexander Brandon is still amazing)

Oh, thanks for that, I didn't know it existed. Found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gckYADZp0A

Yeah, it's interesting, but I think it's not a huge loss. Early 3D games have aged very badly, while many from the 2D era are still perfectly playable. So a higher res 2D followup might have actually been better.

For anyone who doesn't know, this is the same guy who did the Deus Ex soundtrack. He is a phenomenal electronic composer.

Hollow Knight is great, officially it's a Metroid-style game but it's got great platforming bits as well.

Mega Drive and SNES emulator, then you can play an entire library of the golden age of platformers.

With a DS emulator: Henry Hatsworth in the puzzling adventure.

That game is the dark souls of platformers though.

Perhaps you'd be interested in the genre of Metroidvanias?

Hollow Knight, Ori, Celeste.

For multiplayer, Towerfall.

I thought it was popular. Nearly all my childhood friends played it.

My friends at the time all played it, copies pirated from BBSes though. None paid for a copy AFAIK.

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