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.

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Vengeance of Excalibur

DOS19913.9/5 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

DOS19894.1/5 Broderbund

Wizball

DOS19873.5/5 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...

Wolfsbane

DOS19953/5 Midnight Software

Wrath of the Demon

DOS19914.2/5 Abstrax

Xargon

DOS1993freeware4/5 Epic MegaGames

Xatax

DOS19944/5 Pixel Painters Corporation

Xenocide

DOS19903.7/5 Pangea Software

Xenophage: Alien BloodSport

DOS1996freeware3.9/5 Argo Games

Xerix II: The Caverns of Mars

DOS19943/5 Twilight

Yie Ar Kung Fu 2: The Emperor Yie-Gah

DOS19853.9/5 Konami

Zool

DOS19923.9/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive

Zool was to Amiga what Sonic was for Sega consoles: a cool protagonist (a ninja of the Nth dimension!) for a high adrenaline action platformer. Zool was designed by George Allen and published by Gremlin in 1992 and it was an instant success. It was ported for many platforms, DOS included, and followed by Zool 2 in 1993.