The best 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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The Blues Brothers 2: Jukebox Adventure
DOS1993 Titus Interactive
The Blues Brothers 2: Jukebox Adventure is a video game developed by Titus Interactive and released in 1993. It is a sequel to the original The Blues Brothers game, which was based on the popular 1980 film of the same name. The ga...
Xenophage: Alien BloodSport
DOS1996freeware Argo Games
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. W...
Dark Ages Volume III - Dungeons of Doom
DOS1991freeware Scenerio Software
In The Hunt
Windows XP/98/951993 Irem Software Engineering
International Ninja Rabbits
DOS1991 Flair Software
The Amazing Spider-Man
DOS1990 Oxford Digital Enterprises
The Amazing Spider-Man is a side-scrolling action game developed by Oxford Digital Enterprises and published by Paragon Software for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST. The plot revolves around Spider-Man trying to rescue Mary Jane Watso...
Jazz Jackrabbit
DOS1994protected Epic MegaGames
Renegade
DOS1988 Technos Japan
BC's Quest for Tires
DOS1984 Sydney Development
In BC's Quest for Tires, you play a loincloth-wearing caveman who’s riding a unicycle through danger, because apparently that’s how courtship worked in 1984. The goal? Rescue your cave-girlfriend from some surprisingly...
Night Hunter
DOS1988 UBI Soft
Project-X
DOS1994 Team 17
Seymour Goes to Hollywood
DOS1993 The Big Red Software Company
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...
Captain Comic, The Adventures of
DOS1988freeware
Golden Eagle
DOS1991 Loriciels
The Simpsons
DOS1991 Konami
The Simpsons Arcade Game, developed and published by Konami, is a classic side-scrolling beat-'em-up that became highly popular in arcades during the early '90s. Players take on the roles of the Simpson family members: Homer,...
Vynil Goddess from Mars
DOS1995 Six Pound Sledge Studios
Double Dribble
DOS1990 Novotrade Software
Glider 4.0
Windows 3.xMac OS1994
Krusty's Super Funhouse
DOS1993 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 ...
Carl Lewis Challenge
DOS1992 Teque
Carl Lewis Challenge is a sports simulation video game that was released in 1992 by Psygnosis for various platforms, including the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. Named after the famous American track and field athlete Carl Lewis, the g...
Diggers 2: Extractors
DOS1995 Millennium Interactive
Horror Zombies from the Crypt
DOS1990 Astral Software
Horror Zombies from the Crypt is a platform game released in 1990 by Millennium Interactive for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS platforms. The game is heavily inspired by 1950s horror movies, both in atmosphere and design, offerin...
Luigi and Spaghetti
DOS1992 Topo Soft
Mighty Bomb Jack
DOS1990 Tecmo
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
DOS1989 Atari
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...
P47 Thunderbolt
DOS1990 NMK Co.
The Castle of Dr. Malvado
DOS2001