The best 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

Forgotten Worlds

DOS19914/5 Capcom

Golden Eagle

DOS19914/5 Loriciels

International Athletics

DOS19924/5 True Emotions Software

Jammit

DOS19944/5 GTE Entertainment

Mega Man 3

DOS19924/5 Hi-Tech Expressions

Night Breed

DOS19904/5

Omni Play Basketball

DOS19904/5 DesignStar Consultants

Onslaught

DOS19904/5 Arc Developments

Realms of Chaos

DOSMacLinux1995protected4/5 Apogee Software

Savage Warriors

DOS19954/5 Kalisto Entertainment

Stargunner

DOS19964/5 GT Interactive Software

Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain!

DOS19904/5 The Learning Company

The Untouchables

DOS19894/5 Ocean Software

Ultimate Body Blows

DOS1994protected4/5 Team 17

Xargon

DOS1993freeware4/5 Epic MegaGames

Bio Menace Episode 1: Dr. Mangle's Lab

DOS1993freeware4/5 Apogee Software

Super Star Wars

DOS19924/5 LucasArts

Sorcerian

DOS19904/5 Nihon Falcom

Mega Man X

DOS1995protected4/5 Capcom

Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle

DOS1991protected4/5 id software

Nicky Boom

DOS19924/5 Microids

Rush'n Attack

DOS19894/5 Konami

Asterix: Operation Getafix

DOS19894/5 Coktel Vision

Dangerous Dave

DOS1990protected4/5 Softdisk Publishing

Shinobi

DOS19893.9/5 Sega

Colorado

DOS19903.9/5 Silmarils

Mortal Kombat 3

DOS1995protected3.9/5 Midway Manufacturing Company

Mortal Kombat 3 is a fighting action game developed by Midway Manufacturing Company and released by GT Interactive Software in 1995 for DOS and Windows as well as for many other platforms. Mortal Kombat 3 is the third chapter of the acclaimed Mortal Kombat series that spawned many sequels, a few TV series and even movies (with various degree of suc...

Stormlord

DOS19893.9/5 Hewson Consultants

Stormlord is an abandoned DOS platform game set in a fantasy world, developed and published by Hewson Consultants in 1989 and designed by Raffaele Cecco. There was some controversy about the scantily clothed fairies in the game.