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
Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain!
DOS1990 The Learning Company
European Championship 1992
DOS1992 Tecmo
Sirwood
DOS1990 Opera Soft
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...
Doofus
DOS1994 X-ample Architectures
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 ...
Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle
DOS1991protected id software
Commander Keen 6: Aliens Ate my Baby Sitter!
DOS1991 id software
Hocus Pocus
DOS1994protected Apogee Software
Pocahontas
DOS1995 Teeny Weeny Games
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...
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures
DOS1992protected Apogee Software
Jazz Jackrabbit Holiday Hare
DOS1994protected Epic MegaGames
Les Aventures de Moktar - Vol 1: La Zoubida
DOS1991 Titus Interactive
Heroes of the Lance
DOS1989protected U.S. Gold
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 ...
Dark Ages Volume II - The Undead Kingdom
DOS1991freeware Scenerio Software
Tubular Worlds
DOS1994
Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion
DOS1991protected id software
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...
Super Solvers: Spellbound!
DOS1991 The Learning Company
Crime Wave
DOS1990 Access Software
Dalek Attack
DOS1992 Alternative Software
Moon Patrol
DOS1983 Atarisoft
Iron Blood
DOS1996 Family Production
Disney's The Jungle Book
DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected Virgin Interactive
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 ...
Savage Warriors
DOS1995 Kalisto Entertainment
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...