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.

Most popular side-scroller games

Mega Man X4

shooterWindows XP/98/95

Duke Nukem

actionDOS

The Lion King

actionDOS

Side-scroller games

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Ninja

DOS19862.5/5 Acclaim Entertainment
Krusty's Super Funhouse

DOS19933.8/5 Audiogenic

Krusty's Super Funhouse is an abandoned action game developed by Audiogenic and released by Acclaim Entertainment in 1993 for DOS and for many other platforms, both consoles and home computers. Krusty's Super Funhouse is based on the popular character from The Simpson animated TV series.
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine

DOS1991protected4/5 id software

Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is a science fiction action oriented platform game designed by Tom Hall, developed by id Software and released by Apogee Software in 1991 for DOS only. Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is part of the Commander Keen game series, specifically it's the second episode of Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy.
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.
Awesome Earl in SkateRock

DOS19882.5/5
Dangerous Dave: Risky Rescue

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Softdisk Publishing
Prehistorik

DOS1991protected4.1/5 Titus Interactive
Prophecy: The Viking Child

DOS19913.5/5 Imagitec Design
Colorado

DOS19904.1/5 Silmarils
The Godfather

DOS19913.3/5 Creative Materials
Street Sports Soccer

DOS19883.6/5 Epyx
Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle

DOS1991protected4/5 id software
Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja

DOS1988protected4.1/5 Data East
Heroes of the Lance

DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold
Time Slaughter

DOS1996freeware4/5 Bloodlust Software
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures

DOS1992protected4.1/5 Apogee Software
Omni Play Basketball

DOS19904/5 DesignStar Consultants
Dark Ages Volume II - The Undead Kingdom

DOS1991freeware3.6/5 Scenerio Software
Ranx: The Video Game

DOS19903.8/5 UBI Soft
Wrath of the Demon

DOS19914.2/5 Abstrax
Bad Street Brawler

DOS19874.2/5 Beam Software
Platoon

DOS19873.6/5 Ocean Software
Revenge of Defender

DOS19893.5/5 Epyx
Pray for Death

DOS1996protected4.2/5 Light Shock Software
Gremlins 2: The New Batch

DOS19903.4/5 Elite Systems
Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain!

DOS19903.9/5 The Learning Company
Disney's The Jungle Book

DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected4.2/5 Virgin Interactive
Earthworm Jim 2

DOS1996protected4.4/5 Shiny Entertainment
Zorro

DOS19953.3/5 Capstone
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...