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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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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 games ever made... be prepared for clunky controls and repetitive level design that may test your patience.
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Dark Ages Volume II - The Undead Kingdom

DOS1991freeware Scenerio Software
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Super Solvers: Spellbound!

DOS1991 The Learning Company
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Iron Blood

DOS1996 Family Production
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Phantis

DOS1987 Dinamic Multimedia
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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 rides a magical green ball. The wizard's mission is to restore color to the world, which has been drained of its vibrant...
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Dylan Dog: Murderers

DOS1992 Simulmondo
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Omni Play Basketball

DOS1990 DesignStar Consultants
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Predator 2

DOS1991 Arc Developments
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Freddy Hardest

DOS1988 Dinamic Multimedia
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Fox Ranger

DOS1992 Soft Action
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Asterix: Operation Getafix

DOS1989 Coktel Vision
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Oliver & Company

DOS1989 Coktel Vision
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Boot Camp

DOS1989 Konami
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Dragons of Flame

DOS1989protected U.S. Gold
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Obliterator

DOS1989 Psygnosis
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Doofus

DOS1994 X-ample Architectures
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Baal

DOS1989 Psygnosis
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Stargunner

DOS1996 GT Interactive Software
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Beethoven 2

DOS1993 Rozner Labs Software Group
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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 with a magical cauldron and spells, she must traverse through various enchanted levels. Super Cauldron is a class...
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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. In this setting, advanced genetic engineering has led to the creation of cybernetic organisms, or cyborgs, which have b...
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Strider

DOS1989 Capcom
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Vynil Goddess from Mars

DOS1995 Six Pound Sledge Studios
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Ultimate Body Blows

DOS1994protected Team 17
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Luigi and Spaghetti

DOS1992 Topo Soft
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Platoon

DOS1987 Ocean Software
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Netherworld

DOS1990 Hewson Consultants
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Striker

DOS1985
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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 fictional land of Karnov. Initially released in arcades, Karnov was later ported to home consoles like the Nintend...