Side-scrolling 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.

Most popular side-scroller games

Mega Man X4

shooterWindows XP/98/95

Duke Nukem

actionDOS

The Lion King

actionDOS

Side-scroller games

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The Blues Brothers 2: Jukebox Adventure

DOS19933.8/5 Titus Interactive
The Castle of Dr. Malvado

DOS20013.8/5
The Flintstones - Dino: Lost in Bedrock

DOS19902.9/5 Softie
The Godfather

DOS19913.3/5 Creative Materials
The Great Giana Sisters

DOS1987remake4/5
The Lion King

DOS19944.1/5 Westwood Studios
The Lost Vikings

DOS19934.2/5 Silicon & Synapse

The Lost Vikings is an old DOS platform-puzzle game, developed by Silicon & Synapse and published by Interplay Productions in 1993. In The Lost Vikings you have to solve puzzles by controlling three characters (glorious vikings!), each with a single skill of its own.
The Simpsons

DOS19914/5 Konami
The Smurfs

DOSWindows XP/98/9519964.1/5 Infogrames
The Untouchables

DOS19894/5 Ocean Software
Time Slaughter

DOS1996freeware4/5 Bloodlust Software
Titus the Fox

DOS1992protected4.2/5 Titus Interactive

Titus the Fox is a DOS horizontal scrolling platform game developed by Titus Interactive in 1992. As Titus, you have to advance through 15 levels to rescue your beloved Suzy who has been kidnapped. The player can interact with objects by throwing them at foes, or jumping higher. There are bosses at the end of each level and secret rooms spread acro...
Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper

DOS19893.1/5 Probe Entertainment
Tubular Worlds

DOS19943.6/5
Ulises

DOS19893.5/5 Opera Soft
Ultimate Body Blows

DOS1994protected3.9/5 Team 17
Ultimuh MCMLXVII: Part 2 of the 39th Trilogy

DOS19934.2/5
Uridium

DOS19883.9/5 Hewson Consultants

Uridium is an abandoned DOS science fiction side-scrolling shoot'em up designed by Andrew Braybrook. It was developed by Hewson Consultants and published by Mindscape for DOS in 1988. The original C64 version of Uridium won the Golde Joystick Award in 1986.
Vengeance of Excalibur

DOS19914.1/5 Synergistic Software
Viz

DOS19912.6/5
Vynil Goddess from Mars

DOS19953.8/5 Six Pound Sledge Studios
Warriors of Legend

DOS19934/5 Synergistic Software
Wings of Fury

DOS19894.5/5 Broderbund
Wizball

DOS19873.5/5 Sensible Software

Wizball is an abandoned shoot'em up created by Jon Hare and Chris Yates, the guys behind Sensible Software. Wizball was published for PC by Ocean Software in 1987. The premise of Wizball is quite odd: the realm of Wizworld was deprived by all colors by an evil guy. You, as the titular wizard, in form of a... ball with a face (hence the title) must ...
Wrath of the Demon

DOS19914.2/5 Abstrax
Xargon

DOS1993freeware3.9/5 Epic MegaGames
Xatax

DOS19944/5 Pixel Painters Corporation
Xenocide

DOS19903.7/5 Pangea Software
Xenophage: Alien BloodSport

DOS1996freeware3.9/5 Argo Games
Yie Ar Kung Fu 2: The Emperor Yie-Gah

DOS19853.9/5 Konami