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.
Revenge of the Mutant Camels is a side-scrolling shooter written by Jeff Minter for the Commodore 64 and released in 1984 by Llamasoft. The game was a kind of sequel to another sho...
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Mega Man 3 is the third game of the popular side-scroller platformer created by Capcom. When you grow up playing video games, sooner or later, you learn that none of your favorite sagas are safe from the passage of time.
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is a platform action-adventure created for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was developed by Lucasfilm Games and Sculptured Software and released in 1992.
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Blade Warrior is a unique and stylistically bold action-adventure game developed by Jason Kingsley and published in 1991 by Image Works. The game was released for both Amiga and MS-DOS platforms.
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Tubular Worlds is a side-scrolling horizontal shooter developed by Creative Game Design and published by Dongleware, released in 1994 as shareware. It was released for PC and Amiga models with AGA chipset.
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Nemesis 2 is a side-scrolling shoot-em-up developed by Konami for the MSX computer system and released in 1987. Known as Gradius 2 in Japan, the game represents Konami's ambitious ...
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Jill of the Jungle is an adventure platform game developed and published by Epic MegaGames in 1992 for MS-DOS. The title is the first part of a trilogy; the following year, the thr...
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Beyond Dark Castle is an action-adventure platformer created by Silicon Beach Software for Macintosh. It was initially released in 1988 for Mac and later ported to Amiga and Commodore 64.
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Mega Man (aka Rockman) is a platform game developed and published by Capcom in 1987 for the NES. It is the first in the Mega Man franchise, boasting a voluminous game library. Three years later, it was released for MS-DOS.
Year: 1987 Genre: Platformer
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Jill of the Jungle: Jill Goes Underground is the second chapter of the Jill of the Jungle trilogy, a series of side-scroller platformers. The games were designed to compete with Duke Nukem and Commander Keen.
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Asterix and the Power of the Gods is a side-scrolling action-platformer developed by Core Design and published by Sega in 1991. The game was released exclusively for the Genesis/Mega Drive.
Year: 1995 Genre: Platformer
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Anarchy is a side-scrolling parallax shooter developed by WJS Design and published by Psygnosis in 1990 for the Amiga and Atari ST. Despite not being extremely innovative, this Def...
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Ghost Battle is an action-adventure/arcade platformer created by Interactive Design and published by Thalion originally for the Amiga in 1991. Inspired by successes like Shadow o...
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Walker, a shooting game developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis, was released onto the Amiga personal computers in the early 1990s. A quick look at the game would assum...
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