The best 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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Beverly Hills Cop

DOS1990 Tynesoft Computer Software

The Beverly Hills Cop video game by Tynesoft is an action-adventure game based on the popular film franchise starring Eddie Murphy. It was released in 1990 for various home computer platforms, including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC.In the game, players take on the role of Axel Foley, the wise-cracking detective played by Murphy in...

Artura

DOS1989 Arcadia Systems

4th & Inches

DOS1988protected Accolade

Day of the Pharaoh

DOS1989 Chip

Five-a-side Indoor Soccer

DOS1986 Mastertronic

Gateworld

DOS1993 HomeBrew Software

Aquaphobia

DOS1992freeware

Beethoven 2

DOS1993 Rozner Labs Software Group

Boot Camp

DOS1989 Konami

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

DOS1989 Tynesoft Computer Software

Sea Dragon

DOS1983 Adventure International

Xerix II: The Caverns of Mars

DOS1994 Twilight

The Flintstones - Dino: Lost in Bedrock

DOS1990 Softie

Game Over

DOS1988 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.

Baal

DOS1989 Psygnosis

Obliterator

DOS1989 Psygnosis

Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun

DOS1989 Gray Matter

Netherworld

DOS1990 Hewson Consultants

Menace

DOS1988 DMA Design

Menace is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was developed by DMA Design, a company later known as Rockstar North, and initially released in 1988. The game was originally released for the Amiga and Atari ST home computer systems and for DOS. The player's objective is to navigate their spacecraft through various levels filled with enemy ships, o...