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.
Manic Miner is a platform game initially created for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith and released by Software Projects in 1983. The game was ported to many platforms in the follow...
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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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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Risky Woods is a platformer created by the Spanish studio Zeus and published by Electronic Arts and Dinamic Software in 1992. It was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and Mega Drive/Genesis.
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Super Contra is an arcade game developed and published by Konami in 1988, also ported for Nintendo Entertainment in 1990 This installment is a sequel to the legendary Contra (19...
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Electro Man (aka Electroman) is a sci-fi platformer-shooter created by xLand Games and released initially as shareware in 1992. It was later re-released as freeware in 2006..
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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James Pond: Underwater Agent is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Vectordean. It was published by Millennium Interactive in 1990. It was initially for the Amiga and later...
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Cave Story MD is a fan-made remake for Genesis/Mega Drive of the famous platformer Cave Story. The game was created by Andrew DeRosier, and although it's not 100% complete, it is perfectly playable, and the main story is fully intact.
Year: 2022 Genre: Platformer
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Tin Toy Adventure in the House of Fun is a 2D platformer developed by Adrian Cumming and published by Mutation for the Amiga in 1996. Cumming, a former Core Design artist, and deve...
Year: 1996 Genre: Platformer
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Wrath of the Demon is a side-scrolling action adventure created by Abstrax and Readysoft in 1990 for the Amiga. Later it was ported to Atari ST, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS. The game ...
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X-Men is a videogame created by Western Technologies exclusively for the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis console and published in 1993. The title is based on the famous superheroes series by Marvel.
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Flood is a side-scrolling platformer created by Bullfrog originally for the Amiga and then ported to Atari ST. The game was published in 1990 by Electronic Arts. The main author of...
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Phantom Fighter is a horizontal scrolling shooter developed by Emerald Software for the Amiga in 1988. It was later ported to PC, though the conversion significantly altered the gameplay format from the original design.
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Total Recall is the adaptation of the science-fiction movie directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The game was released in 1990, the same year of the film, and Ocean published it.
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Nightbreed: The Action Game is a progressive beat-em-up based on Clive Barker's movie Nightbreed. The game was developed by Impact for Ocean and published in 1990 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, e ZX Spectrum.
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