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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Superstar Ice Hockey

DOS19874/5 DesignStar Consultants

BC's Quest for Tires

DOS19843.8/5 Sydney Development

Magic Johnson's Basketball

DOS19893.3/5 Sculptured Software

Alien Olympics

DOS19942.7/5 Dark Technologies

Guldkorn Expressen

DOS19914.1/5 SilverRock productions

Sea Dragon

DOS19833/5 Adventure International

Vynil Goddess from Mars

DOS19953.8/5 Six Pound Sledge Studios

Game Over

DOS19882.9/5 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.

International Athletics

DOS19924/5 True Emotions Software

The Castle of Dr. Malvado

DOS20013.7/5

Joe and Mac Cavemen Ninja

DOS19914.2/5 Data East

Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja is a side-scrolling platformer video game developed and released by Data East in 1991. Known as "Joe & Mac" in North America and "Caveman Ninja" in other regions, the game gained popularity for its humorous take on prehistoric themes, cooperative gameplay, and challenging levels.The game is set in a colorful and car...

Mighty Bomb Jack

DOS19903.8/5 Tecmo

Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun

DOS19892.9/5 Gray Matter

Pac-in-Time

DOS19933.8/5 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, SNES. Pac-in-Time is essentially Fury of the Furries reskinned with Pac-Man as the main character.

Heavy Barrel

DOS19893.4/5 Data East

Sopwith

DOS1984freeware4.1/5 BMB Compuscience

Grave Yardage

DOS19893.7/5 Incredible technologies

Ultimuh MCMLXVII: Part 2 of the 39th Trilogy

DOS19933.9/5

Targhan

DOS19893.6/5 Silmarils

African Trail Simulator

DOS19904/5 Positive

P47 Thunderbolt

DOS19903.7/5 NMK Co.

Safari Guns

DOS19893.5/5

Interpose

DOS19963.5/5 Twilight Zone Software

Stargunner

DOS19964/5 GT Interactive Software

Soccer Kid

DOS19953.9/5 Krisalis

The Untouchables

DOS19894/5 Ocean Software

Uridium

DOS19883.9/5 Graftgold

Uridium is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was originally developed by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986 for various home computer platforms (including MS-DOS). In Uridium, players control a spaceship known as the Manta, and the objective is to destroy a series of enemy spacecraft, as well as ground-based inst...