The most popular 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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Dark Ages Volume I - Prince of Destiny

DOS1991freeware4/5 Scenerio Software

Platoon

DOS19873.6/5 Ocean Software

Dragons of Flame

DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold

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.

In The Hunt

Windows XP/98/9519934.2/5 Irem Software Engineering

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...

Secret Agent

DOS1992protected3.9/5 Apogee Software

Brutal Sports Football

DOS19934.2/5 Teque

Night Breed

DOS19904/5

Creatures Village

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2001protected3.8/5 Creature Labs

Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper

DOS19893.1/5 Probe Entertainment

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures

DOS1992protected4.1/5 Apogee Software

Wrath of the Demon

DOS19914.2/5 Abstrax

Alien Olympics

DOS19942.7/5 Dark Technologies

Magic Pockets

DOS19924/5 Bitmap Brothers

Alcatraz

DOS19923.6/5 221B Software Development

P47 Thunderbolt

DOS19903.7/5 NMK Co.

Beverly Hills Cop

DOS19903.2/5 Tynesoft Computer Software

The Beverly Hills Cop video game by Tynesoft is an action-adventure game based on the popular film franchise starring Eddie Murphy. It was released in 1990 for various home computer platforms, including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC.In the game, players take on the role of Axel Foley, the wise-cracking detective played by Murphy in...