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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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...
Thomas the Tank Engine
DOS1992 Peakstar Software
Shadow Knights
DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing
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...
Sorcerian
DOS1990 Nihon Falcom
Guldkorn Expressen
DOS1991 SilverRock productions
Viz
DOS1991
Wizball
DOS1987 Sensible Software
Wizball is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Sensible Software and originally released for various home computer platforms in 1987. The game was published by Ocean Software.In Wizball, players control a wizard who ...
Predator 2
DOS1991 Arc Developments
Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja
DOS1988protected Data East
Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president? If that line doesn’t make you want to punch a ninja through a hotdog stand, nothing will. Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja is peak 80s: mullets, muscles, and more side-scrolling be...
Iskib
DOS1989
Side Arms Hyper Dyne
DOS1988 Capcom
Side Arms: Hyper Dyne is a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up arcade game developed and published by Capcom in 1986 and later ported on various platforms. Players control a "mobilsuit," a futuristic combat robot, in a war against al...
The Untouchables
DOS1989 Ocean Software
Super Solvers: Spellbound!
DOS1991 The Learning Company
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...
Targhan
DOS1989 Silmarils
Golden Eagle
DOS1991 Loriciels
Dangerous Streets
DOS1994
Magic Johnson's Basketball
DOS1989 Sculptured Software
Thomas the Tank Engine 2
DOS1993 Peakstar Software
Last Knight in Camelot
DOS1996
Double Dribble
DOS1990 Novotrade Software
Day of the Pharaoh
DOS1989 Chip
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine
DOS1991protected 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 Mach...
Commander Keen: Keen Dreams
DOS1992 id software
Revenge of Defender
DOS1989 Epyx
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...
Stargunner
DOS1996 GT Interactive Software
Vynil Goddess from Mars
DOS1995 Six Pound Sledge Studios
International Athletics
DOS1992 True Emotions Software