Side-scrolling games sorted by release date

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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Fire and Ice

DOS19934.1/5 Graftgold

Fury of the Furries

DOS19934/5 Kalisto Entertainment

Gateworld

DOS19933.1/5 HomeBrew Software

In The Hunt

Windows XP/98/9519934.2/5 Irem Software Engineering

James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod

DOS19933.7/5 Millennium Interactive

Krusty's Super Funhouse

DOS19933.8/5 Audiogenic

Krusty's Super Funhouse is an abandoned action game developed by Audiogenic and released by Acclaim Entertainment in 1993 for DOS and for many other platforms, both consoles and home computers. Krusty's Super Funhouse is based on the popular character from The Simpson animated TV series.

Pac-in-Time

DOS19933.9/5 Kalisto Entertainment

Pac-in-Time is an abandoned action side-scrolling platformer game developed by Kalisto Entertainment and released by Mindscape in 1993 for DOS. Pac-in-time was but also published for other platforms such as Amiga, Game Boy, Mac, SNES. Pac-in-Time is essentially Fury of the Furries reskinned with Pac-Man as the main character.

Prehistorik 2

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Titus Interactive

Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame

DOSMac19934.1/5 Broderbund

Santa's Xmas Caper

DOS19933.4/5 Zeppelin Games

Seymour Goes to Hollywood

DOS19933.8/5 The Big Red Software Company

The Blues Brothers 2: Jukebox Adventure

DOS19933.8/5 Titus Interactive

The Lost Vikings

DOS19934.2/5 Silicon & Synapse

The Lost Vikings is an old DOS platform-puzzle game, developed by Silicon & Synapse and published by Interplay Productions in 1993. In The Lost Vikings you have to solve puzzles by controlling three characters (glorious vikings!), each with a single skill of its own.