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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Dragon Force - Day 3

DOS19933.7/5 Mirinae Software

Stargate

DOS19833.6/5 Williams Entertainment

Strider

DOS19893.6/5 Capcom

Bad Street Brawler

DOS19874/5 Beam Software

Bad Street Brawler is a beat 'em up video game developed by Beam Software and published by Mindscape. Originally released for the Commodore 64 in 1987 and later for other platforms. The game features Duke Davis, a former punk rocker turned vigilante, as the protagonist. In "Bad Street Brawler," players guide Duke through various urban environm...

Road Runner

DOS19894/5 Atari

Road Runner is a video game based on the popular Looney Tunes cartoon series featuring Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. The game was originally developed by Atari Games and released in arcades in 1985. It was later ported to various home gaming platforms, such as the Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MS-DOS and others. Yo...

Moon Patrol

DOS19834.2/5 Atarisoft

Sirwood

DOS19903.3/5 Opera Soft

Santa's Xmas Caper

DOS19933.4/5 Zeppelin Games

Dalek Attack

DOS19923.7/5 Alternative Software

Yie Ar Kung Fu 2: The Emperor Yie-Gah

DOS19853.9/5 Konami

Ulises

DOS19893.5/5 Opera Soft

Golden Eagle

DOS19914/5 Loriciels

Kaeon

DOS19923.5/5

4th & Inches

DOS1988protected3.2/5 Accolade

Xatax

DOS19944/5 Pixel Painters Corporation

Striker

DOS19853.4/5

Obliterator

DOS19892.9/5 Psygnosis

Armor Alley

DOSMac OS19913.9/5

Super Cauldron

DOS19923.9/5 Titus Interactive

Jetstrike

DOS19943.5/5 Shadow Software

Oliver & Company

DOS19894.2/5 Coktel Vision

McDonald Land

DOS19923.6/5 Visual Concepts Entertainment

Warriors of Legend

DOS19934.1/5 Synergistic Software

Double Dribble

DOS19903.9/5 Novotrade Software

BC's Quest for Tires

DOS19843.8/5 Sydney Development

Zyclunt

DOS19953.5/5 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. In this setting, advanced genetic engineering has led to the creation of cybernetic organisms, or cyborgs, which have b...