Abandonware DOS title

Side-scrolling games sorted by title, from Z to A

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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Dangerous Dave: Risky Rescue

DOS1993protected Softdisk Publishing
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Dangerous Dave: Dave Goes Nutz!

DOS1995protected Softdisk Publishing
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Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion

DOS1991protected id software
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Dangerous Dave

DOS1990protected Softdisk Publishing
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Dalek Attack

DOS1992 Alternative Software
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Crystal Caves

DOS1991protected Apogee Software
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Crime Wave

DOS1990 Access Software
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Creatures Village

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2001protected Creature Labs
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Cougar Force

DOS1990 Coktel Vision
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Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures

DOS1992protected Apogee Software
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Cosmic Spacehead

DOS1993 Codemasters
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Cool Spot

DOS1994 Virgin Interactive
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Contra: Locked and Loaded

Windows 10/112013freewareremake
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Commander Keen: Keen Dreams

DOS1992 id software
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Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine

DOS1991protected id software
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is a science fiction action oriented platform game designed by Tom Hall, developed by id Software and released by Apogee Software in 1991 for DOS only. Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Mach...
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Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle

DOS1991protected id software
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Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die!

DOS1990protected id software
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Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes

DOS1990protected id software
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Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars

DOS1990 id software
Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars is a platform video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1990 as shareware for MS-DOS. The game follows the adventures of an eight-year-old genius named Billy Bl...
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Colorado

DOS1990 Silmarils
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Caveman Ugh-Lympics

DOS1989 Dynamix
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Castlevania

DOS1990 Distinctive Software
Castlevania, originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986, was developed and published by Konami. The game was known in Japan as Akumajo Dracula (Devil's Castle Dracula) and was later renamed Castlevania for i...
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Carl Lewis Challenge

DOS1992 Teque
Carl Lewis Challenge is a sports simulation video game that was released in 1992 by Psygnosis for various platforms, including the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. Named after the famous American track and field athlete Carl Lewis, the g...
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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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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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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...