The best 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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Zool 2

DOS1994 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive

The ninja ant is back—and this time, he brought a friend. Zool 2 doubles down on the sugar-fueled mayhem of the first game with more levels, more enemies, and even more inexplicable candy-based architecture. Choose between Z...

Dalek Attack

DOS1992 Alternative Software

Xenocide

DOS1990 Pangea Software

Predator 2

DOS1991 Arc Developments

James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod

DOS1993 Millennium Interactive

Dylan Dog: Murderers

DOS1992 Simulmondo

Crime Wave

DOS1990 Access Software

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 ...

Ninja Gaiden

DOS1990 Tecmo

Ninja Gaiden, released in 1988 for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and later to other platforms, is a side-scrolling action-platformer developed by Tecmo. It follows the story of Ryu Hayabusa, a skilled ninja on a quest fo...

Alcatraz

DOS1992 221B Software Development

Alcatraz (1992) asks the question: what if Rambo got locked in prison and had to bust out while flexing dramatically the entire time? This top-down action game puts you in the very macho boots of an elite commando trying to escape...

Freddy Hardest

DOS1988 Dinamic Multimedia

Karnov

DOS1987 Data East

Karnov is a classic side-scrolling action arcade game developed by Data East in 1987. The game features a unique protagonist named Jinborov Karnovski, or "Karnov", a fire-breathing, muscle-bound, bald, shirtless strongman from the...

Disney's Tarzan

Windows XP/98/951999 Eurocom Developments

Dragon Force - Day 3

DOS1993 Mirinae Software

Fox Ranger

DOS1992 Soft Action

Grave Yardage

DOS1989 Incredible technologies

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...