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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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...
Xargon
DOS1993freeware Epic MegaGames
Super Mario Fusion: Revival
Windows 10/112011freewareremake
Super Mario Fusion: Revival is a freeware fan-made game project that aims to combine elements from various classic video games, primarily the Super Mario series and the Sonic the Hedgehog series, into a single game. It's esse...
Ranx: The Video Game
DOS1990 UBI Soft
Ranx is a 1990 action-adventure video game based on the Italian cyberpunk comic RanXerox, created by artist Tanino Liberatore. The game was developed by Ubisoft and released for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS platforms. The ...
Zool 2
DOS1994 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
The ninja ant is back—and this time, he brought a friend. Zool 2 doubles down on the sugar-fueled mayhem of the first game with more levels, more enemies, and even more inexplicable candy-based architecture. Choose between Z...
The Great Giana Sisters
DOS1987remake
The Great Giana Sisters is a platform video game developed by Time Warp Productions and published by Rainbow Arts. It was originally released in 1987 for the Commodore 64 and other platforms, and later unofficially ported to MS-DO...
Crystal Caves
DOS1991protected Apogee Software
Krusty's Super Funhouse
DOS1993 Audiogenic
Krusty's Super Funhouse is an abandoned action game developed by Audiogenic and released by Acclaim Entertainment in 1993 for DOS and for many other platforms, both consoles and home computers. Krusty's Super Funhouse is based on ...
Alien Rampage
DOS1996
Alien Rampage (1996) is what happens when Duke Nukem gets stranded on a hostile alien planet and decides subtlety is for cowards. It’s a side-scrolling shooter dripping with gore, attitude, and the occasional terrible pun. E...
Road Runner
DOS1989 Atari
Road Runner is a video game based on the popular Looney Tunes cartoon series featuring Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. The game was originally developed by Atari Games and released in arcades in 1985. It was later ported to v...
Beverly Hills Cop
DOS1990 Tynesoft Computer Software
Take Eddie Murphy’s swagger, remove the charm, add some DOS chiptunes, and you get Beverly Hills Cop—a game adaptation that asks: “What if being a wisecracking detective meant stiff animations and random driving ...
Creatures Village
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2001protected Creature Labs
Savage Warriors
DOS1995 Kalisto Entertainment
Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun
DOS1989 Gray Matter
Attack of the Mutant Camels
DOS2001freewareremake
If you've ever stared at a camel and thought, "What if it shot lasers and had a personal grudge against humanity?", Attack of the Mutant Camels is the fever dream you've been waiting for. Released in 2001 for DOS — yes, some...
Ardentryst
Windows 10/11Linux2009
Ardentryst is the indie platformer that tried really hard to be a Metroidvania and kinda pulled it off. With anime-style art, RPG elements, and two playable characters, it’s got ambition pouring out of its pixelated pores. T...
X-Men: Madness in Murderworld
DOS1989 Paragon Software
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...
Platoon
DOS1987 Ocean Software
Uridium
DOS1988 Graftgold
Uridium is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was originally developed by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986 for various home computer platforms (including MS-DOS). In Uridium, players control a ...
Artura
DOS1989 Arcadia Systems
Artura is a hack-and-slash side-scroller that looks like someone tried to draw Gauntlet from memory after a power outage. You’re some kind of Celtic warrior on a mystical mission, but really you’re just trying not to d...
Rush'n Attack
DOS1989 Konami
Wrath of the Demon
DOS1991 Abstrax
Wrath of the Demon is a fantasy action-adventure game developed by the Canadian company Abstrax and published by ReadySoft. The game was released in 1991 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS platforms, with a later release for the ...
Jazz Jackrabbit
DOS1994protected Epic MegaGames
Magic Pockets
DOS1992 Bitmap Brothers
Magic Pockets is a platform game developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade Software. It was released in 1991 for the Atari ST, Amiga, and MS-DOS platforms. In Magic Pockets, players control a character known ...
Colorado
DOS1990 Silmarils
Dark Ages Volume III - Dungeons of Doom
DOS1991freeware Scenerio Software
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures
DOS1992protected Apogee Software
James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod
DOS1993 Millennium Interactive
Ultimate Body Blows
DOS1994protected Team 17