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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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Bio Menace Episode 1: Dr. Mangle's Lab

DOS1993freeware Apogee Software
Mutants! Explosions! Green slime! Bio Menace kicks off with Dr. Mangle’s Lab, a side-scrolling blast of carnage where you, Snake Logan (yes, really), shoot your way through a monster-infested city with a machine gun and a ba...
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Bio Menace Episode 2: The Hidden Lab

DOS1993freeware Apogee Software
Snake Logan is back, and this time the lab is... hidden! The Hidden Lab cranks up the challenge with more grotesque mutants, more lethal traps, and slightly improved sarcasm. It’s like episode one, but with less common sense...
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Bio Menace Episode 3: Master Cain

DOS1993freeware Apogee Software
The trilogy concludes in Master Cain, where Snake Logan faces the ultimate evil: a villain with a name that sounds like a Bond bad guy and a plan straight from Saturday morning cartoons. Expect one last hurrah of mutant-blasting m...
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Body Blows

DOS1993 Team 17
Body Blows is a 2D fighting game developed and published by Team17, released in 1993. It was initially launched for the Amiga and later ported to MS-DOS. Body Blows was one of the few fighting games to emerge from Europe during th...
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Brutal Sports Football

DOS1993 Teque
Take American football, remove the rules, add swords and fireballs, and throw in some screaming. That is Brutal Sports Football. This is not about touchdowns. This is about survival. Players can be decapitated, the ball can explod...
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Cosmic Spacehead

DOS1993 Codemasters
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Dangerous Dave: Risky Rescue

DOS1993protected Softdisk Publishing
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Dragon Force - Day 3

DOS1993 Mirinae Software
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Duke Nukem 2

DOS1993 Apogee Software
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Fire and Ice

DOS1993 Graftgold
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Fury of the Furries

DOS1993 Kalisto Entertainment
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Gateworld

DOS1993 HomeBrew Software
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In The Hunt

Windows XP/98/951993 Irem Software Engineering
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James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod

DOS1993 Millennium Interactive
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Krusty's Super Funhouse

DOS1993 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 ...
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Last Action Hero

DOS1993 Psygnosis
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Pac-in-Time

DOS1993 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, S...
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Prehistorik 2

DOS1993protected Titus Interactive
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Rusty

DOS1993 C-lab.
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Santa's Xmas Caper

DOS1993 Zeppelin Games
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Seymour Goes to Hollywood

DOS1993 The Big Red Software Company
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The Blues Brothers 2: Jukebox Adventure

DOS1993 Titus Interactive
The Blues Brothers 2: Jukebox Adventure is a video game developed by Titus Interactive and released in 1993. It is a sequel to the original The Blues Brothers game, which was based on the popular 1980 film of the same name. The ga...
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The Lost Vikings

DOS1993 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 v...
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Thomas the Tank Engine 2

DOS1993 Peakstar Software
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Warriors of Legend

DOS1993 Synergistic Software
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Xargon

DOS1993freeware Epic MegaGames
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Alien Olympics

DOS1994 Dark Technologies
Released in 1994, Alien Olympics answers the age-old question: “What if the Olympics were hosted by Martians on acid?” This wacky collection of mini-games has you competing in events like laser javelin and rocket racin...
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Cool Spot

DOS1994 Virgin Interactive