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 applications

Mega Man X4

shooterWindows XP/98/95

The Lion King

actionDOS

Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars

actionDOS

Side-scroller applications

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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
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.
Zool 2

DOS19943.7/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
Zorro

DOS19953.3/5 Capstone