The 6 Early Pioneers of 3D platforming!

Super Mario 64 and Crash Bandicoot are the two earliest 3D platformers many people remember. Later in the conversation, games like Spyro the Dragon or Banjo-Kazooie are mentioned. And though they're great games, they're not pioneers like the six games I've picked out. All 6 of these games came out between 1995 and 1996 - too close to each other to take ideas from each other, and both show the wildly different takes different developers had on what it meant to be a "3D platformer".
I promise you Bubsy 3D is just subpar and not as horrible as people say it is.