The most popular side-scroller games

A side-scroller (or horizontal scrolling) is a video game in which the action is shown in a side perspective and the environment scrolls mainly on an horizontal axis. Characters usually have to move from the left to the right side of the screen to go on in the game.

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First Samurai

DOS19923.9/5 Vivid Image

Project-X

DOS19943.8/5 Team 17

Colorado

DOS19903.9/5 Silmarils

Attack of the Mutant Camels

DOS2001freewareremake3.8/5

Ninja Rabbits

DOS19923.6/5 Villa Crespo Software

Guldkorn Expressen

DOS19914.1/5 SilverRock productions

The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge!

DOS19893.9/5 Paragon Software

Time Slaughter

DOS1996freeware4.1/5 Bloodlust Software

Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja

DOS1988protected4.1/5 Data East

Night Breed

DOS19904/5

Jazz Jackrabbit Holiday Hare

DOS1994protected3.9/5 Epic MegaGames

Crime Wave

DOS19903.7/5 Access Software

Pray for Death

DOS1996protected4.2/5 Light Shock Software

Bad Street Brawler

DOS19874/5 Beam Software

Iron Blood

DOS19964.1/5 Family Production

Baal

DOS19892.9/5 Psygnosis

Ninja Gaiden

DOS19903.6/5 Tecmo

Ninja Gaiden, released in 1988 for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and later to other platforms, is a side-scrolling action-platformer developed by Tecmo. It follows the story of Ryu Hayabusa, a skilled ninja on a quest for vengeance and justice.In the game, players control Ryu as he battles through six acts, each divided into several stage...