Abandonware DOS title

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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Sorcerian

DOS1990 Nihon Falcom
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Commander Keen: Keen Dreams

DOS1992 id software
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Ulises

DOS1989 Opera Soft
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Predator 2

DOS1991 Arc Developments
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P47 Thunderbolt

DOS1990 NMK Co.
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Dangerous Dave: Risky Rescue

DOS1993protected Softdisk Publishing
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Dangerous Dave: Dave Goes Nutz!

DOS1995protected Softdisk Publishing
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Santa's Xmas Caper

DOS1993 Zeppelin Games
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Caveman Ugh-Lympics

DOS1989 Dynamix
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Onslaught

DOS1990 Arc Developments
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Boot Camp

DOS1989 Konami
Boot Camp (1989, DOS) is the game that turns military training into a button-mashing festival of pain. Ever dreamed of surviving basic training without breaking a sweat? This is it—if your definition of “not sweating&r...
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Thomas the Tank Engine

DOS1992 Peakstar Software
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Thomas the Tank Engine 2

DOS1993 Peakstar Software
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Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone

DOS1992 East Technology Corp.
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Iskib

DOS1989
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Fire and Ice

DOS1993 Graftgold
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Barbie

DOS1992 Imagineering Inc.
Released in 1992, Barbie for DOS is what happens when someone asks, “What if pink could be a video game?” You play as Barbie on a quest to collect accessories and win Ken's affection, which probably says more about ear...
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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...
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Darius Gaiden

Windows XP/98/951998 Taito
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Frankenstein

DOS1994 Junkyard
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Billy The Kid

DOS1990 Level 9 Computing
Saddle up, pardner. Billy The Kid puts you in the dusty boots of the infamous outlaw himself. This is the Wild West, DOS-style — pixel pistols, wanted posters, and dialogue that might make a cactus wince. Whether you’r...
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Dragons of Flame

DOS1989protected U.S. Gold
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Netherworld

DOS1990 Hewson Consultants
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Game Over

DOS1988 Dinamic Multimedia
Game Over is an abandoned side scrolling shooter/platform game designed by Ignacio Ruiz Tejedor, Pedro Sudón Aguilar, developed and released by Dinamic Multimedia in 1988 for DOS. Game Over isn't exactly one of the best gam...
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Targhan

DOS1989 Silmarils
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Zyclunt

DOS1995 Phantagram
Zyclunt is a side-scrolling action game developed and published by Phantagram in 1995. The game is set in a dystopian future where incurable diseases and a rise in criminal activities have brought society to the brink of collapse....
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Blade Warrior

DOS1991 Image Works
Blade Warrior (1991) is a side-scrolling beat 'em up that looks like it was illustrated entirely in heavy metal album covers. You’re a silhouette of rage, cutting through demonic hordes in a world where nobody believes in co...
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Vixen

DOS1988 Intelligent Design