jump and run

plural jump and runs

1. alternativeAlternative form of jump'n'run (“type of platform video game”).

   A basketball game will not have the same effect as a comic jump and run, a gory dungeon crawler, or an abstract puzzle game.

   2015, Rachel Kowert, Thorsten Quandt, The Video Game Debate, page 187

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   For instance, players of the Mario games for the Game Boy must make the protagonist jump from platform to platform (“jump and run”) and must have good timing […]

   2007, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media, volume 1

   The game engine is especially designed for jump and run games and furthermore for serious games due to a logging module and a questionnaire component.

   2014, Minhua Ma, Manuel Fradinho Oliveira, Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Serious Games Development and Applications: 5th International Conference, SGDA 2014, page 118