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An online game is a video game that is either partially or primarily played through the Internet or another computer network.

Online games are ubiquitous on modern gaming platforms, including PCs, consoles and mobile devices, and span many genres, including first-person shooters, strategy games and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG).

A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules.

Some games are based on pure strategy, but many contain an element of chance; and some are purely chance, with no element of skill.

A browser game is a computer game that is played over the Internet using a web browser.

Browser games can be run using standard web technologies or browser plug-ins.

The creation of such games usually involves use of standard web technologies as a frontend and other technologies to provide a backend.

Browser games include all video game genres and can be single-player or multiplayer.

Browser games are also portable and can be played on multiple different devices, web browsers, and operating systems.

A Platform game (or platformer) is a video game which involves guiding an avatar to jump between suspended platforms and/or over obstacles to advance the game.

The player controls the jumps to avoid letting the avatar fall from platforms or miss necessary jumps.

The most common unifying element of games of this genre is the jump button, but now there are other alternative like swiping in touchscreen.

Jumping, in this genre, may include swinging from extendable arms, as in Ristar or Bionic Commando, or bouncing from springboards or trampolines, as in Alpha Waves.

These mechanics, even in the context of other genres, are commonly called platforming, a verbification of platform.

Games where jumping is automated completely, such as 3D games in The Legend of Zelda series, fall outside of the genre.

Super Mario Bros.

is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System home console.

Released as a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.

was released in Japan and North America in 1985, and in Europe and Australia two years later.