Abandonware DOS title

The most popular vertical-scroller games

A vertical-scroller is a video game in which the action is shown in a top down perspective and the environment scrolls from top to bottom. Characters usually don't have to move to scroll the screen (expecially in shoot'em ups).
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Ikari III: The Rescue

DOS19903.5/5 SNK Corporation
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Sink or Swim

DOS19933.5/5 Zeppelin Games
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Star Wars 2

DOS19894.1/5
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Major Stryker

DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware3.9/5 Apogee Software
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Donkey BAS

DOS19813.8/5 Microsoft
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Ballistix

DOS19893.8/5 Reflections Interactive
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Heavy Barrel

DOS19893.4/5 Data East
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Goal!

DOS19933.9/5 Dini & Dini Productions
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Toobin

DOS19894.1/5 Domark Software
Toobin is an abandoned action game developed by Domark Software and released in 1989. Toobin runs on DOS but was also published for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Game Boy Color, MSX, NES, ZX Spectrum. It's a conversion from a popular arcade game (at the time).
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Total Carnage

DOS19943.8/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
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Last Duel: Inter Planet War 2012

DOS19893.5/5 Capcom
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Dawn Raider

DOS19904/5 Softstar Entertainment
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Ajax

DOS19893.4/5 Konami
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Popeye 2

DOS19923.3/5 Bizarre Developments
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Sky Shark

DOS19893.5/5 Toaplan
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Guerrilla War

DOS19873.4/5 SNK Corporation
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Mystical

DOS1990protected3.5/5 Infogrames
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Space Miner

DOS19833.5/5
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Jackal

DOS19894.1/5 Konami
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Postman Pat 3: To the Rescue

DOS19923.5/5 Alternative Software