The best 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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Xenophage: Alien BloodSport
DOS1996freeware3.9/5 Argo Games
Heroes of the Lance
DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold
Castlevania
DOS19903.9/5 Distinctive Software
Home Alone
DOS19913.9/5 Manley Associates
Vengeance of Excalibur
DOS19913.9/5 Synergistic Software
Soccer Kid
DOS19953.9/5 Krisalis
Asterix: Operation Getafix
DOS19893.9/5 Coktel Vision
Yie Ar Kung Fu 2: The Emperor Yie-Gah
DOS19853.9/5 Konami
Hercules
Windows XP/98/951997protected3.9/5 Eurocom Developments
Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior
DOS19893.9/5 Psygnosis
Ultimuh MCMLXVII: Part 2 of the 39th Trilogy
DOS19933.9/5
Zool
DOS19923.9/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
Zool was to Amiga what Sonic was for Sega consoles: a cool protagonist (a ninja of the Nth dimension!) for a high adrenaline action platformer. Zool was designed by George Allen and published by Gremlin in 1992 and it was an instant success. It was ported for many platforms, DOS included, and followed by Zool 2 in 1993.
Super Cauldron
DOS19923.9/5 Titus Interactive
Mega Man
DOS19903.9/5 Capcom
Uridium
DOS19883.9/5 Graftgold
Uridium is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was originally developed by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986 for various home computer platforms (including MS-DOS). In Uridium, players control a spaceship known as the Manta, and the objective is to destroy a series of enemy spacecraft, as well as ground-based inst...
Dark Ages Volume III - Dungeons of Doom
DOS1991freeware3.9/5 Scenerio Software
Cougar Force
DOS19903.9/5 Coktel Vision
Elvira: the Arcade Game
DOS19913.9/5 Flair Software
Secret Agent
DOS1992protected3.9/5 Apogee Software
First Samurai
DOS19923.9/5 Vivid Image
Blood Money
DOS19903.9/5 DMA Design
Blood Money is an abandoned classic sci-fi themed side-scrolling shoot'em up. Blood Money was designed by David Jones, developed by DMA Design and released by Psygnosis in 1990 for DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, C64. Blood Money features different vehicles for different levels, power ups and an energy bar that depletes when colliding with enemies or the env...
Crystal Caves
DOS1991protected3.9/5 Apogee Software
Double Dribble
DOS19903.9/5 Novotrade Software
The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge!
DOS19893.9/5 Paragon Software
The Amazing Spider-Man
DOS19903.9/5 Oxford Digital Enterprises
Armor Alley
DOSMac OS19913.9/5
Billy The Kid
DOS19903.9/5 Level 9 Computing
Ranx: The Video Game
DOS19903.9/5 UBI Soft
Dragons of Flame
DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold
Creatures Village
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2001protected3.8/5 Creature Labs