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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Fox Ranger

DOS1992 Soft Action

Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion

DOS1991protected id software

Dangerous Dave: Risky Rescue

DOS1993protected Softdisk Publishing

Fire and Ice

DOS1993 Graftgold

Moon Patrol

DOS1983 Atarisoft

Glider 4.0

Windows 3.xMac OS1994

Disney's The Jungle Book

DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected Virgin Interactive

Bio Menace Episode 3: Master Cain

DOS1993freeware Apogee Software

The trilogy concludes in Master Cain, where Snake Logan faces the ultimate evil: a villain with a name that sounds like a Bond bad guy and a plan straight from Saturday morning cartoons. Expect one last hurrah of mutant-blasting m...

Lorna

DOS1990NSFW Topo Soft

Targhan

DOS1989 Silmarils

European Championship 1992

DOS1992 Tecmo

Rolling Ronny

DOS1991 Starbyte Software

Shadow Knights

DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing

Beats of Rage

DOS2003freeware

Beats of Rage is what happens when fans of Streets of Rage decide to stop waiting for Sega and just build their own game—with a side of King of Fighters for flavor. This DOS beat 'em up is so full of punches, kicks, and pixe...

Contra: Locked and Loaded

Windows 10/112013freewareremake

X-Men: Madness in Murderworld

DOS1989 Paragon Software

Prehistorik

DOS1991protected Titus Interactive

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 obj...

Shinobi

DOS1989 Sega

Xatax

DOS1994 Pixel Painters Corporation

Karateka

DOS1986 Broderbund

Karateka is a martial arts themed action / fighting game released by Broderbund in 1986 for DOS. Karateka is the first game designed by Jordan Mechner, the father of the Prince of Persia franchise. Karateka was also publ...

Baal

DOS1989 Psygnosis

Released in 1989 for DOS, Baal is what happens when demons invade and the only thing standing between Earth and eternal damnation is a guy with a really big gun and absolutely no concern for platforming physics. You’re dropp...

Double Dribble

DOS1990 Novotrade Software

Prophecy: The Viking Child

DOS1991 Imagitec Design

Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes

DOS1990protected id software

Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle

DOS1991protected id software

Zool 2

DOS1994 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive

The ninja ant is back—and this time, he brought a friend. Zool 2 doubles down on the sugar-fueled mayhem of the first game with more levels, more enemies, and even more inexplicable candy-based architecture. Choose between Z...