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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Blood Money

DOS1990 DMA Design

Blood Money (1990) answers the question: what if every level in a shoot-'em-up was a different kind of sci-fi fever dream? You fly through alien-infested caverns, collect cash, and try not to get obliterated by things that look li...

Body Blows

DOS1993 Team 17

Body Blows is a 2D fighting game developed and published by Team17, released in 1993. It was initially launched for the Amiga and later ported to MS-DOS. Body Blows was one of the few fighting games to emerge from Europe during th...

Boot Camp

DOS1989 Konami

Boot Camp (1989, DOS) is the game that turns military training into a button-mashing festival of pain. Ever dreamed of surviving basic training without breaking a sweat? This is it—if your definition of “not sweating&r...

Brutal Sports Football

DOS1993 Teque

Take American football, remove the rules, add swords and fireballs, and throw in some screaming. That is Brutal Sports Football. This is not about touchdowns. This is about survival. Players can be decapitated, the ball can explod...

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

DOS1989 Tynesoft Computer Software

Saddle up for an awkward mix of minigames that vaguely resemble rodeo events. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show tries to recreate the excitement of a 19th-century traveling circus but ends up feeling more like a 1980s office party whe...

Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality

DOS1990freeware

Captain Comic, The Adventures of

DOS1988freeware

Carl Lewis Challenge

DOS1992 Teque

Carl Lewis Challenge is a sports simulation video game that was released in 1992 by Psygnosis for various platforms, including the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. Named after the famous American track and field athlete Carl Lewis, the g...

Castlevania

DOS1990 Distinctive Software

Castlevania, originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986, was developed and published by Konami. The game was known in Japan as Akumajo Dracula (Devil's Castle Dracula) and was later renamed Castlevania for i...

Caveman Ugh-Lympics

DOS1989 Dynamix

Colorado

DOS1990 Silmarils

Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars

DOS1990 id software

Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars is a platform video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1990 as shareware for MS-DOS. The game follows the adventures of an eight-year-old genius named Billy Bl...

Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes

DOS1990protected id software

Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die!

DOS1990protected id software

Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle

DOS1991protected id software

Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine

DOS1991protected id software

Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is a science fiction action oriented platform game designed by Tom Hall, developed by id Software and released by Apogee Software in 1991 for DOS only. Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Mach...