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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Mortal Kombat 3

DOS1995protected4/5 Midway Manufacturing Company

Mortal Kombat 3 is a fighting action game developed by Midway Manufacturing Company and released by GT Interactive Software in 1995 for DOS and Windows as well as for many other platforms. Mortal Kombat 3 is the third chapter of the acclaimed Mortal Kombat series that spawned many sequels, a few TV series and even movies (with various degree of suc...

The Blues Brothers 2: Jukebox Adventure

DOS19933.8/5 Titus Interactive

Lollypop

DOS19943.4/5

Glider 4.0

Windows 3.xMac OS19943.8/5

Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die!

DOS1990protected4.2/5 id software

Face Off!

DOS19894.1/5 MindSpan

Face Off! is an abandoned hockey sports game developed by MindSpan (known for their Hardball series) and released by Gamestar in 1989 for DOS and also for Commodore 64. Face Off supports multiplayer in competitive or cooperative modes.

Eye of Horus

DOS19894.1/5 Denton Designs

Gateworld

DOS19933.1/5 HomeBrew Software

Dark Ages Volume III - Dungeons of Doom

DOS1991freeware3.9/5 Scenerio Software

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

DOS19914/5 Syntetic Dimensions

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is one of the many adaptations of the Terminator franchise. This one is based on the movie of the same name, but it's not as good as the movie, according to critics. Terminator 2 is an action game developed by Syntetic Dimensions and released by Ocean Software in 1991 for DOS. It was also published for C64, ZX Spectrum, A...

Revenge of Defender

DOS19893.5/5 Epyx

Stormlord

DOS19893.9/5 Hewson Consultants

Stormlord is an abandoned DOS platform game set in a fantasy world, developed and published by Hewson Consultants in 1989 and designed by Raffaele Cecco. There was some controversy about the scantily clothed fairies in the game.

Ghosts 'n Goblins remake

Windows2004freewareremake4.1/5

Dragons of Flame

DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold

Dalek Attack

DOS19923.9/5 Alternative Software

Night Hunter

DOS19883.8/5 UBI Soft

Zool 2

DOS19943.7/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive

Attack of the Mutant Camels

DOS2001freewareremake3.8/5

Secret Agent

DOS1992protected3.9/5 Apogee Software

Zyclunt

DOS19953/5 Phantagram

Zyclunt is a side-scrolling action game developed and published by Phantagram in 1995. The game is set in a dystopian future where incurable diseases and a rise in criminal activities have brought society to the brink of collapse. In this setting, advanced genetic engineering has led to the creation of cybernetic organisms, or cyborgs, which have b...