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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Blade Warrior

DOS1991 Image Works

Blade Warrior (1991) is a side-scrolling beat 'em up that looks like it was illustrated entirely in heavy metal album covers. You’re a silhouette of rage, cutting through demonic hordes in a world where nobody believes in co...

Five-a-side Indoor Soccer

DOS1986 Mastertronic

Guldkorn Expressen

DOS1991 SilverRock productions

Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper

DOS1989 Probe Entertainment

Ultimuh MCMLXVII: Part 2 of the 39th Trilogy

DOS1993

Heavy Barrel

DOS1989 Data East

Wolfsbane

DOS1995 Midnight Software

Diggers 2: Extractors

DOS1995 Millennium Interactive

Rastan

DOS1990 Taito

Extreme Shopper

Windows 3.x2000

Fox Ranger

DOS1992 Soft Action

International Athletics

DOS1992 True Emotions Software

The Untouchables

DOS1989 Ocean Software

Cougar Force

DOS1990 Coktel Vision

Awesome Earl in SkateRock

DOS1988

Remember when being radical meant wearing neon shorts and dodging killer squirrels on a skateboard? No? Well, Awesome Earl in SkateRock is here to educate you. Released in 1988, this sidescrolling oddity lets you control a tubular...