Abandonware DOS title

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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Prehistorik 2

DOS1993protected Titus Interactive
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Predator 2

DOS1991 Arc Developments
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Super Solvers: Spellbound!

DOS1991 The Learning Company
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Dalek Attack

DOS1992 Alternative Software
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Titus the Fox

DOS1992protected Titus Interactive
Titus the Fox is a DOS horizontal scrolling platform game developed by Titus Interactive in 1992. As Titus, you have to advance through 15 levels to rescue your beloved Suzy who has been kidnapped. The player can interact with objects by throwing them at foes, or jumping higher. There are bosses at the end of each level and secret rooms spread acro...
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Xatax

DOS1994 Pixel Painters Corporation
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Axe of Rage

DOS1989 Palace Software
If Conan had a bad day and took it out on a few dozen goblins, you'd get something close to Axe of Rage. This 1989 DOS hack-n-slash isn't exactly subtle—you're a barbarian, there’s an evil warlord, and everything must be cleaved in two. The animations might remind you of a flipbook made by an angry teenager, but there's charm in its awk...
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Pocahontas

DOS1995 Teeny Weeny Games
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Blood Money

DOS1990 DMA Design
Blood Money (1990) answers the question: what if every level in a shoot-'em-up was a different kind of sci-fi fever dream? You fly through alien-infested caverns, collect cash, and try not to get obliterated by things that look like angry underwater Christmas decorations. The game has that classic early-90s Euro-vibe: tough as nails, oddly beautifu...
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James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod

DOS1993 Millennium Interactive
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Cosmic Spacehead

DOS1993 Codemasters
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Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die!

DOS1990protected id software
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Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja

DOS1988protected Data East
Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president? If that line doesn’t make you want to punch a ninja through a hotdog stand, nothing will. Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja is peak 80s: mullets, muscles, and more side-scrolling beatdowns than a Chuck Norris fan convention. It's cheesy, it's repetitive, and yes — it's absolutely glorious.
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Dark Ages Volume III - Dungeons of Doom

DOS1991freeware Scenerio Software
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Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures

DOS1992protected Apogee Software
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Beverly Hills Cop

DOS1990 Tynesoft Computer Software
Take Eddie Murphy’s swagger, remove the charm, add some DOS chiptunes, and you get Beverly Hills Cop—a game adaptation that asks: “What if being a wisecracking detective meant stiff animations and random driving segments?” It’s a mash-up of shooting, driving, and wondering what just happened, loosely held together by t...
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Moon Patrol

DOS1983 Atarisoft
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Caveman Ugh-Lympics

DOS1989 Dynamix
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McDonald Land

DOS1992 Visual Concepts Entertainment
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Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun

DOS1989 Gray Matter
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Darius Gaiden

Windows XP/98/951998 Taito
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Doofus

DOS1994 X-ample Architectures
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Ranx: The Video Game

DOS1990 UBI Soft
Ranx is a 1990 action-adventure video game based on the Italian cyberpunk comic RanXerox, created by artist Tanino Liberatore. The game was developed by Ubisoft and released for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS platforms. The game follows RanXerox, a violent and artificially enhanced cyborg in dystopian cyberpunk world. The gameplay is a mix of...
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Hocus Pocus

DOS1994protected Apogee Software
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Earthworm Jim

DOS1995protected Shiny Entertainment
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Ninja Rabbits

DOS1992 Villa Crespo Software
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Baby Joe in: Going Home

DOS1991 Loriciels
In 1991, DOS gamers were treated to the weirdest parenting simulator ever: Baby Joe in: Going Home. You play as Baby Joe, an infant inexplicably left to crawl through caves, forests, and other extremely child-unfriendly terrain. Why is a baby traversing spike pits and lava flows? No one knows. Maybe his babysitter was the final boss. With floaty co...
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Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion

DOS1991protected id software
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Super Cauldron

DOS1992 Titus Interactive
Super Cauldron is a platforming game developed by Titus Interactive and released in 1993 for platforms like MS-DOS, Amiga, and Amstrad CPC. In the game, you play as a witch on a mission to restore peace to her land. Armed with a magical cauldron and spells, she must traverse through various enchanted levels. Super Cauldron is a class...