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The best fixed screen games

In a fixed screen game there is no scrolling, neither vertical nor horizontal. In a fixed screen video game, the screen doesn't move in any way. Anything but the screen can usually move anyway, but gameplay is restricted to the fixed screen. Early arcade games where typically fixed screen games: scrolling was harder to obtain in the early age of video gaming.

Most popular fixed screen games

CD-Man v2.0
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Alley Cat
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Street Fighter 2
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Fixed screen games

  • bomb-jack-01
    DOS19844.5/5 Tecmo

    Bomb Jack is a classic arcade platform game developed and published by Tecmo in 1984. The goal of the game is to collect bombs while avoiding enemies; the whole game takes place in a fixed screen. Bomb Jack for DOS is a conversion from the arcade original version. The arcade and the conversions were a huge commercial success.

  • kings-table-01
    DOS1993protected4.4/5 Imagitec Design
  • tetris-classic-02
    DOSWindows 3.x19924.4/5 Spectrum Holobyte
  • sid-and-al-incredible-toons-06
    DOS19934.4/5 Dynamix
  • street-fighter-2-6
    DOS19924.3/5 Capcom

    Street Fighter 2 is one of the most popular fighting game ever released in the 90s. Street Fighter 2 was designed by Akira Nishitani and Akira Yasuda, developed and published by Capcom in 1991 for the arcades and then converted for many platforms from Spectrum ZX to DOS (in 1992).

  • tank-wars-01
    DOS19904.3/5
  • joust-vga-03
    DOS1990remake4.3/5
  • bang-bang-04
    Windows 3.x19904.3/5
  • montezuma-revenge-04
    DOS19844.3/5 Parker Brothers
  • super-street-fighter-2-05
    DOS19964.3/5 Capcom
  • alleycat-splash
    DOS19844.3/5 Synapse Software

    Alley Cat is an arcade platform game designed by Bill Williams, developed by Synapse and released for IBM in 1984. As a cat, your goal is to jump around the neighborhood, enter apartments - each being a mini-game - to find your lost loved one.

  • x-tetris-win-02
    Windows XP/98/951996NSFW4.3/5
  • ugh-3
    DOS19924.3/5 Egosoft
  • mahjongg-nels-01
    DOS19874.3/5 Arcanum Computing
  • loderunner-1
    DOSMac19834.3/5 Broderbund
  • incredible-machine-2-1
    DOSWindows 3.xWindows XP/98/9519944.3/5 Jeff Tunnell Productions
  • porntris-01
    DOS1993remakeNSFW4.3/5 Image-Line Software
  • lady-love-03
    DOS1990freewareNSFW4.3/5
  • windows-tetris-02
    Windows XP/98/9519904.3/5 AcademySoft
  • trog-04
    DOS19904.3/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
  • volfied-0004
    DOS19914.2/5 Taito

    Volfied is an abandoned action heavily inspired by the classic Qix (draw rectangles in a fixed screen to trap and destroy enemies). Volfied was designed by Fukio Mitsuji, developed by Taito and released by Empire Interactive in 1991 for DOS.

  • crazy-digger-1
    DOS19834.2/5 Windmill Software

    Digger is an abandoned action game developed and released by Windmill Software back in 1983 for PC only. Gameplay is a mix of two classics: Dig Dug and Mr. Do!: dig down, get gems, avoid death, reach the next level and so on.

  • death-sword-02
    DOS19884.2/5 Palace Software

    Death Sword (also known as Barbarian in Europe), is a fighting game developed by Palace Software, set in a fantasy world full of huge sword-wielding barbarians. Compared to modern brawlers, Death Sword gameplay may seem slow, but at the time it was considered adequate. Instead of rushing into multiple chain combos, the slow pace allow the players t...

  • classic-concentration-01
    DOS19884.2/5 Softie
  • gobliiins-3
    DOSMac1991protected4.2/5 Coktel Vision

    Gobliiins is a peculiar adventure game designed by Pierre Gilhodes, developed by French company Coktel Vision and released by Sierra On-Line in 1991 for DOS, Mac, Amiga and Atari ST. In Gobliiins, you control multiple goblins and you must find a way to progress to the next area by solving typical adventure puzzles. The story is almost non-exis...

  • mspacpc-1
    DOS1995remake4.2/5 Magicom Multimedia
  • super-stardust-02
    DOS19964.2/5 Housemarque
  • theincrediblemachine-1
    DOS19934.2/5 Jeff Tunnell Productions

    The Incredible Machine (part of The Incredible Machine series) is a single-player peculiar DOS physics-puzzle game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line in 1993. The goal of the game is to build strange complicated contraptions using the few pieces at your disposal. When you feel pretty sure that your contraptio...

  • bubblebobble-3
    DOS19894.2/5 Taito

    Bubble Bobble is perhaps one of the most popular (and cute!) platform arcade games of all times. The goal of Bubble Bobble is simple: clear each screen from various monsters and reach the final stage. In order to get rid of enemies, dinosaurs Bub and Bob can spit bubbles to trap them, then pop the bubbles to kill them.

  • panzakick-1
    DOS19904.2/5 Loriciels