Top 5 platform games on bada

With every games platform comes platform games.

The platform game itself is a broad concept - from vanilla 2D side-scrollers to recreations of medieval worlds in 3D sandbox adventures.

Compiled for your convenience, here are the top five examples of the platform genre on bada. Whether it's a bit of high-definition running and gunning you're after, or some pixelated space octopus drama, we’ve got you covered.

Once just an ordinary garden variety earthworm, Jim finds himself transformed into a super-powered hero after an Ultra-high-tech-indestructible-super-space-cyber-suit falls from space and inadvertently grants him the power to run, jump, swing, shoot, and use his head as a propeller.

If you haven’t played Shiny Entertainment’s 1994 platforming classic, you really owe it to yourself to give it a go.

Otherwise, you'd not only miss out on iconic levels such as New Junk City and Hell, but you’d also never experience the thrill of bashing the heads of iconic baddies such as Psy-Crow, Major Mucus, and Bob the Killer Goldfish.

One note of caution: keep an eye out for plummeting cows.

Despite its title, Ninja Jumper is not actually about feudal-era Japanese knitwear. It is, in fact, a vertical-scrolling platformer in which you have to ascend as high as possible before your little martial artist avatar snuffs it.

Tilting your smartphone left or right to control your ninja, you’ll be bouncing on leaves to give you extra height.

You’ll have to be quick on the draw with the old shurikens, mind, in order to shoot various samurai-shaped bad guys on your way heavenward.

Not so much a platformer as a platform-avoider, Mikura puts you in the tentacles of a cutesy space mollusk on a mission.

Controls are tilt-based, so a simple forward tilt lifts the titular invertebrate up and a downward tilt lowers her. The game’s challenge comes in the form of an onrush of colourful enemies who can only be dispersed via a colour-changing mechanic.

It’s a long way home for poor old Mikura, too, with 13 levels chock full of baddies and spikes to overcome.

If you were to take a trip to the Himalayas and find yourself stranded and forced to live like a wild man, it may only be a matter of time before you fall victim to the same fate as the poor eponymous star of Herman the Hermit.

Apparently, it’s his years of training and isolated meditation which has given him the ninja-like ability to traverse the inexplicably floating platforms dotted around the Himalayan range.

Unfortunately, it’s also made him stark raving bonkers in this bright and slightly unhinged game.

There was a time when tackling bad guys required a simple unsuspecting leap onto their noggin to render them harmless. Thankfully, we’ve moved on, and games like Assassin’s Creed: Altaïr’s Chronicles now give us the opportunity to eliminate evildoers in more ingenious ways.

For example, how would Koopa Troopa possibly deal with Altair and his arsenal of stealth-based combos and weaponry? With difficulty, is the answer.

Assassin’s Creed on bada doesn’t look half bad, either, packed with stylised character animations and a vivid historical world full of walls to scale and Templar henchmen to eviscerate in increasingly sneaky ways.