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

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Captain Comic, The Adventures of

DOS1988freeware3.8/5
Castlevania

DOS19903.9/5 Distinctive Software
Caveman Ugh-Lympics

DOS19894.5/5 Dynamix
Colorado

DOS19904.1/5 Silmarils
Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars

DOS19904.2/5 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 Blaze, who uses his homemade spaceship to travel to various alien planets to save the Earth from alien invaders known as V...
Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes

DOS1990protected4/5 id software
Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die!

DOS1990protected4.1/5 id software
Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle

DOS1991protected4/5 id software
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine

DOS1991protected4/5 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 Machine is part of the Commander Keen game series, specifically it's the second episode of Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy.
Commander Keen 6: Aliens Ate my Baby Sitter!

DOS19914.2/5 id software
Commander Keen: Keen Dreams

DOS19924/5 id software
Cool Spot

DOS19944/5 Virgin Interactive
Cosmic Spacehead

DOS19933.3/5 Codemasters
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures

DOS1992protected4.1/5 Apogee Software
Cougar Force

DOS19903.9/5 Coktel Vision
Creatures Village

Windows XP/98/95Mac2001protected3.8/5 Creature Labs
Crime Wave

DOS19903.8/5 Access Software
Crystal Caves

DOS1991protected3.9/5 Apogee Software
Dalek Attack

DOS19923.9/5 Alternative Software
Dangerous Dave

DOS1990protected4/5 Softdisk Publishing
Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion

DOS1991protected4.1/5 id software
Dangerous Dave: Dave Goes Nutz!

DOS1995protected3.3/5 Softdisk Publishing
Dangerous Dave: Risky Rescue

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Softdisk Publishing
Dangerous Streets

DOS19943.5/5
Darius Gaiden

Windows XP/98/9519984.4/5 Taito
Dark Ages Volume I - Prince of Destiny

DOS1991freeware4/5 Scenerio Software
Dark Ages Volume II - The Undead Kingdom

DOS1991freeware3.6/5 Scenerio Software
Dark Ages Volume III - Dungeons of Doom

DOS1991freeware3.9/5 Scenerio Software
Day of the Pharaoh

DOS19893/5 Chip
Defender

DOS19834.2/5 Williams Entertainment