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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Artura

DOS19893.2/5 Arcadia Systems

Pray for Death

DOS1996protected4.2/5 Light Shock Software

Barbie

DOS19923.4/5 Imagineering Inc.

Stargate

DOS19833.6/5 Williams Entertainment

Stormlord

DOS19894/5 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.

Superstar Ice Hockey

DOS19874/5 DesignStar Consultants

Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone

DOS19924.2/5 East Technology Corp.

Joe and Mac Cavemen Ninja

DOS19914.2/5 Data East

Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja is a side-scrolling platformer video game developed and released by Data East in 1991. Known as "Joe & Mac" in North America and "Caveman Ninja" in other regions, the game gained popularity for its humorous take on prehistoric themes, cooperative gameplay, and challenging levels.The game is set in a colorful and car...

Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun

DOS19892.9/5 Gray Matter

Stargunner

DOS19964/5 GT Interactive Software

Creatures Village

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2001protected3.9/5 Creature Labs

The Godfather

DOS19913.2/5 Creative Materials

Glider 4.0

Windows 3.xMac OS19943.8/5

The Flintstones - Dino: Lost in Bedrock

DOS19903/5 Softie

The Untouchables

DOS19894/5 Ocean Software

Viz

DOS19912.6/5

Wings of Fury

DOS19894/5 Broderbund

Zorro

DOS19953.3/5 Capstone

Flightmare

DOS1984freeware3.6/5

Alien Olympics

DOS19942.7/5 Dark Technologies

Uridium

DOS19883.9/5 Graftgold

Uridium is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was originally developed by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986 for various home computer platforms (including MS-DOS). In Uridium, players control a spaceship known as the Manta, and the objective is to destroy a series of enemy spacecraft, as well as ground-based inst...