Athletic Land was one of Konami's first original platformers, with a character crossing stages obstructed by moving platforms and simple enemies, in line with the early jump games that defined the genre before Super Mario Bros. It's a key piece for understanding the prehistory of the Japanese platformer: simple by today's standards, but valuable as a direct forerunner of what Konami and others would develop just a few years later.
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