Abandonware DOS title

Side-scrolling games sorted by year, newest first

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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Mighty Bomb Jack

DOS1990 Tecmo
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Netherworld

DOS1990 Hewson Consultants
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Night Breed

DOS1990
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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...
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Omni Play Basketball

DOS1990 DesignStar Consultants
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Onslaught

DOS1990 Arc Developments
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Over the Net!

DOS1990 Genias
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P47 Thunderbolt

DOS1990 NMK Co.
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Prince of Persia

DOSMac OS1990 Broderbund
Prince of Persia is an abandoned DOS platform game set in Middle East, developed and released by Broderbund in 1990. Designer Jordan Mechner created a game that made a lasting impression of gamers thanks to a clever use of a ...
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Ranx: The Video Game

DOS1990 UBI Soft
Ranx is a 1990 action-adventure video game based on the Italian cyberpunk comic RanXerox, created by artist Tanino Liberatore. The game was developed by Ubisoft and released for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS platforms. The ...
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Rastan

DOS1990 Taito
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Shadow Knights

DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing
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Sirwood

DOS1990 Opera Soft
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Sorcerian

DOS1990 Nihon Falcom
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Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain!

DOS1990 The Learning Company
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The Amazing Spider-Man

DOS1990 Oxford Digital Enterprises
The Amazing Spider-Man is a side-scrolling action game developed by Oxford Digital Enterprises and published by Paragon Software for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST. The plot revolves around Spider-Man trying to rescue Mary Jane Watso...
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Xenocide

DOS1990 Pangea Software
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Artura

DOS1989 Arcadia Systems
Artura is a hack-and-slash side-scroller that looks like someone tried to draw Gauntlet from memory after a power outage. You’re some kind of Celtic warrior on a mystical mission, but really you’re just trying not to d...
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Asterix: Operation Getafix

DOS1989 Coktel Vision
Operation Getafix (1989) is what happens when you turn a beloved comic series into a game with the precision of a wild boar wearing gloves. You play as Asterix on a quest to help Getafix the druid recover his memory and his recipe...
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Axe of Rage

DOS1989 Palace Software
If Conan had a bad day and took it out on a few dozen goblins, you'd get something close to Axe of Rage. This 1989 DOS hack-n-slash isn't exactly subtle—you're a barbarian, there’s an evil warlord, and everything must ...
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Baal

DOS1989 Psygnosis
Released in 1989 for DOS, Baal is what happens when demons invade and the only thing standing between Earth and eternal damnation is a guy with a really big gun and absolutely no concern for platforming physics. You’re dropp...
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Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior

DOS1989 Psygnosis
Ah, Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior—the game where loincloths are tiny and sword swings are deadly. This 1989 fighter slashed its way onto DOS with decapitations, grunts, and enough low-res gore to make Conan blush. Forget f...
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Boot Camp

DOS1989 Konami
Boot Camp (1989, DOS) is the game that turns military training into a button-mashing festival of pain. Ever dreamed of surviving basic training without breaking a sweat? This is it—if your definition of “not sweating&r...
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

DOS1989 Tynesoft Computer Software
Saddle up for an awkward mix of minigames that vaguely resemble rodeo events. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show tries to recreate the excitement of a 19th-century traveling circus but ends up feeling more like a 1980s office party whe...
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Caveman Ugh-Lympics

DOS1989 Dynamix
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Day of the Pharaoh

DOS1989 Chip
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Dragons of Flame

DOS1989protected U.S. Gold
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Eye of Horus

DOS1989 Denton Designs