English
generic platformer
From generic + platformer.
A compound of generic + platformer
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce, beget’
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os ‘race’
Proto-Italic *genos
Latin genus ‘genus, kind’
Middle French générique
English generic
The story
Originated in web-based coding website communities, most particularly Scratch.
Today it means
noun An unoriginal and banal platform game.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / generic platformer