10 Most Bizarre Gaming Features We Just Accept
6. Floating Platforms
During gaming's formative years, prior to polygons, and before Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time changed the gaming landscape indelibly, platform games were everywhere.
Gamers in their thirties will look back on childhoods playing Alex Kidd, Mega Man, Alien 3, and Earthworm Jim - not to mention a certain plumber and a particular hedgehog.
You know the drill: move across the screen, timing your jumps to perfection as you land on oscillating structures suspended in mid-air, then on to a reciprocating platform, dispatching enemies along the way as you complete your goal.
This is gaming.
These platforms and walkways, lifts and structures form the very foundations upon which modern day games were built.
But - at the risk of touching on sacrilegious ground here - mid-air platforms, ledges, blocks and bricks make absolutely no sense whatsoever.
What are they connected to? How do they stay up? Why do they not sag when our hero lands on them?
HOW LONG HAS YOSHI BEEN TRAPPED INSIDE THAT BLOCK?!
Familiarity has blinded us to the fact that one of the oldest, most beloved, and ubiquitous features in gaming history is as illogical as it is weird.