In side-scrolling games, pixels and nostalgia collide to create a gaming experience like no other.
Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
In side-scrolling games, pixels and nostalgia collide to create a gaming experience like no other.
Agony is a surreal-fantasy side-scrolling shoot 'em up, created by Psygnosis in 1992 for the Amiga. The game has never been released on other platforms. The main character is an ow...
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The Blues Brothers is a platform action game originally developed by Titus for the Amiga and released in 1991. Following the game's success on Amiga, it was subsequently ported to ...
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Shinobi is an arcade game created by SEGA in 1987, ported almost immediately to the Master System and later to many other platforms. In the game, you control a ninja ("shinobi" mea...
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Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion (or Dangerous Dave 2) is the sequel to the original Dangerous Dave. It was developed by Gamer’s Edge and id Software, and published by Softdisk Publishing in 1991 for DOS.
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Katakis is a sci-fi shooter inspired to R-Type, developed by Factor 5 and released in 1988 for the Commodore 64 and Amiga. The C64 version was created by Manfred Trenz and Andrea...
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The Godfather is the official videogame of the Francis Ford Coppola film released in 1972. The game was developed by Creative Materials and published by U.S. Gold in 1992 for Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS.
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Gradius is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up developed and published by Konami, initially in 1985 as an arcade. The game was ported to MSX and NES in 1986 and released outside Japan with the name "Nemesis.
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Commander Keen: Aliens Ate My Babysitter! is the final episode of the famous series of side-scrolling platformers created by id Software. The game, published in 1991 by FormGen, wa...
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Super Double Dragon is a side-scrolling beat 'em up developed by Technōs Japan and published in 1992 exclusively for SNES. Since it's the fourth chapter of the series, it is also known as Double Dragon IV.
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Abuse is a 2D side-scrolling sci-fi shooter developed by Crack Dot Com and published by RedHat in 1995 for DOS and Linux. It eventually made its way onto the Mac, Amiga, Acorn 32-bit, GP2X, and iPhone, to name a few.
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Rick Dangerous II½ is an exclusive level of the Amiga platformer Rick Dangerous by Core Design, released as coverdisk of The One Magazine in 1991..
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer
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Earthworm Jim 2 for the Mega Drive is an action-platformer developed by Shiny Entertainment and published by Playmates Interactive in 1995. Serving as a sequel to the highly acclai...
Year: 1995 Genre: Platformer
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Castlevania, released in 1987 in North America for the NES, marked the beginning of one of Konami’s most iconic franchises. Designed by Hitoshi Akamatsu (as later confirmed throu...
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Altered Beast is a beat ''em-up arcade game created by SEGA in 1988 as a coin-op machine. The same year it was also converted to the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis console, becoming the pack-in game officially offered with the console.
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