Side-scrolling games sorted by release date

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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Castlevania

DOS19903.9/5 Distinctive Software

Colorado

DOS19903.9/5 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!

DOS1990protected4.2/5 id software

Cougar Force

DOS19903.9/5 Coktel Vision

Crime Wave

DOS19903.7/5 Access Software

Dangerous Dave

DOS1990protected4/5 Softdisk Publishing

Double Dribble

DOS19903.8/5 Novotrade Software

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

DOS19903.4/5 Elite Systems

Horror Zombies from the Crypt

DOS19903.8/5 Astral Software

Lorna

DOS1990NSFW4.1/5 Topo Soft

Mega Man

DOS19903.9/5 Capcom

Netherworld

DOS19902.9/5 Hewson Consultants

Night Breed

DOS19904/5

Ninja Gaiden

DOS19903.6/5 Tecmo

Ninja Gaiden, released in 1988 for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and later to other platforms, is a side-scrolling action-platformer developed by Tecmo. It follows the story of Ryu Hayabusa, a skilled ninja on a quest for vengeance and justice.In the game, players control Ryu as he battles through six acts, each divided into several stage...

Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword of Chaos

DOS19904.1/5 Tecmo

Omni Play Basketball

DOS19904/5 DesignStar Consultants

Onslaught

DOS19904/5 Arc Developments

P47 Thunderbolt

DOS19903.7/5 NMK Co.

Prince of Persia

DOSMac OS19904.2/5 Broderbund

Prince of Persia is an abandoned DOS platform game set in Middle East, developed and released by Broderbund in 1990. Designer Jordan Mechner created a game that made a lasting impression of gamers thanks to a clever use of a tecnique called rotoscoping which makes the animation of the protagonist very realistic.