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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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Gremlins 2: The New Batch

DOS1990 Elite Systems
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Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain!

DOS1990 The Learning Company
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Sirwood

DOS1990 Opera Soft
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Pac-in-Time

DOS1993 Kalisto Entertainment
Pac-in-Time is an abandoned action side-scrolling platformer game developed by Kalisto Entertainment and released by Mindscape in 1993 for DOS. Pac-in-time was but also published for other platforms such as Amiga, Game Boy, Mac, S...
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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 ...
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Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle

DOS1991protected id software
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Hocus Pocus

DOS1994protected Apogee Software
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Pocahontas

DOS1995 Teeny Weeny Games
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Yie Ar Kung Fu 2: The Emperor Yie-Gah

DOS1985 Konami
The sequel nobody expected but everyone button-mashed through. Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 adds more characters, more chaos, and less coherence. This time you’re Lee (no relation to Bruce, allegedly), battling an army of themed fighter...
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Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures

DOS1992protected Apogee Software
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Jazz Jackrabbit Holiday Hare

DOS1994protected Epic MegaGames
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Heroes of the Lance

DOS1989protected U.S. Gold
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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 ...
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Dark Ages Volume II - The Undead Kingdom

DOS1991freeware Scenerio Software
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Tubular Worlds

DOS1994
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Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion

DOS1991protected id software
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Karnov

DOS1987 Data East
Karnov is a classic side-scrolling action arcade game developed by Data East in 1987. The game features a unique protagonist named Jinborov Karnovski, or "Karnov", a fire-breathing, muscle-bound, bald, shirtless strongman from the...
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Super Solvers: Spellbound!

DOS1991 The Learning Company
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Crime Wave

DOS1990 Access Software
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Dalek Attack

DOS1992 Alternative Software
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Moon Patrol

DOS1983 Atarisoft
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Iron Blood

DOS1996 Family Production
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Disney's The Jungle Book

DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected Virgin Interactive
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Armor Alley

DOSMac OS1991
In Armor Alley, you command a helicopter in a warzone that looks like a side-scrolling office meeting gone wrong. It’s strategy meets action: you must manage resources, deploy units, and not crash into the ground every five ...
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Savage Warriors

DOS1995 Kalisto Entertainment
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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 wit...