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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DOS1990 Nihon Falcom
Commander Keen: Keen Dreams
DOS1992 id software
Ulises
DOS1989 Opera Soft
Predator 2
DOS1991 Arc Developments
P47 Thunderbolt
DOS1990 NMK Co.
Dangerous Dave: Risky Rescue
DOS1993protected Softdisk Publishing
Dangerous Dave: Dave Goes Nutz!
DOS1995protected Softdisk Publishing
Santa's Xmas Caper
DOS1993 Zeppelin Games
Caveman Ugh-Lympics
DOS1989 Dynamix
Onslaught
DOS1990 Arc Developments
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
Thomas the Tank Engine 2
DOS1993 Peakstar Software
Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone
DOS1992 East Technology Corp.
Iskib
DOS1989
Fire and Ice
DOS1993 Graftgold
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...
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...
Darius Gaiden
Windows XP/98/951998 Taito
Dangerous Streets
DOS1994
Frankenstein
DOS1994 Junkyard
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...
Last Knight in Camelot
DOS1996
Dragons of Flame
DOS1989protected U.S. Gold
Netherworld
DOS1990 Hewson Consultants
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...
Targhan
DOS1989 Silmarils
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....
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...
Vixen
DOS1988 Intelligent Design