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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4th & Inches

DOS1988protected3.2/5 Accolade

Five-a-side Indoor Soccer

DOS19863.1/5 Mastertronic

Gateworld

DOS19933.1/5 HomeBrew Software

Day of the Pharaoh

DOS19893.1/5 Chip

Aquaphobia

DOS1992freeware3/5

Beethoven 2

DOS19933/5 Rozner Labs Software Group

Boot Camp

DOS19893/5 Konami

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

DOS19893/5 Tynesoft Computer Software

Sea Dragon

DOS19833/5 Adventure International

Xerix II: The Caverns of Mars

DOS19943/5 Twilight

The Flintstones - Dino: Lost in Bedrock

DOS19903/5 Softie

Game Over

DOS19882.9/5 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

DOS19892.9/5 Psygnosis

Obliterator

DOS19892.9/5 Psygnosis

Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun

DOS19892.9/5 Gray Matter

Netherworld

DOS19902.9/5 Hewson Consultants

Menace

DOS19882.8/5 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...