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Once a staple of the gaming industry, [[Horizontal Scrolling Shooter]] games are rather rare since the latter half of the 1990s.

As the name suggests, the game's playfield [[Auto Scrolling Level|constantly scrolls horizontally]] over the course of a level. The view can either be side-on or top-down, depending on the developer's choice. The most common use of such an engine has been for games with some kind of spacecraft either flying over a landscape or through an installation, with unbreakable obstacles that would kill the player either on contact, or by blocking the craft.

Most such games had the player collect health, lives and weapons as powerups in the levels, although some allowed the player to make purchases with their points between levels.

Complexity varies by having different numbers of layers of parallax and in some cases, transparency effects, such as translucent explosions.

Compare [[Vertical Scrolling Shooter]]. 
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* ''[[Air Zonk (Video Game)|Air Zonk]]''
* ''[[Akai Katana]]''
* ''[[Altitude (Video Game)|Altitude]]''
* ''[[Area 88]],'' also known as ''U.N. Squadron'' in the US. One of the few [[Licensed Game|Licensed Games]] to not suck
* ''[[Assault Suits Valken (Video Game)|Assault Suits Valken]]''
* ''[[Bio-Hazard Battle (Video Game)|Bio-Hazard Battle]]''
* ''[[BIOMETAL (Video Game)|BIOMETAL]]''
* ''Blast Works''/''TUKIMI Fighters''
* ''[[Blazing Star]]''
* ''[[Boogie Wings]]'' (''The Great Ragtime Show'' in Japan)
* ''[[Border Down]]''
* ''[[Chimera Beast]]'' (unreleased)
* ''[[Cobalt (Video Game)|Cobalt]]''
* ''[[Fantastic Night Dreams Cotton (Video Game)|Cotton]]''
* The ''[[Darius (Video Game)|Darius]]'' series.
* ''[[Death Smiles]]'' series
* "Dr. Phlogiston Saves the Earth" from [[Fun Orb]]
* ''[[Einhander]]''
* ''[[Eliminate Down (Video Game)|Eliminate Down]]''
* ''[[Gaiares]]''
* ''[[Gradius (Video Game)|Gradius]]'' series
* ''Gundemonium'', ''Gundeadligne'' and ''Gundemonium Recollection'' from the ''[[Gundemonium Series (Video Game)|Gundemonium Series]]''
* ''[[Heavy Weapon (Video Game)|Heavy Weapon]]''
* ''[[Hydorah]]''
* ''[[In the Hunt]]''
* ''[[Iwanaga]]''
* ''[[Jets N Guns]]''
* ''[[Metal Black]]''
* ''[[Otomedius (Video Game)|Otomedius]]''
* ''[[Parasite Strike (Video Game)|Parasite Strike]]''
* ''[[Parodius (Video Game)|Parodius]]'' series
* ''Parsec''
* ''[[Phalanx (Video Game)|Phalanx]]''
* ''[[Prehistoric Isle]]''
* ''[[Progear]]''
* ''[[Pulstar]]''
* ''[[Really Big Sky (Video Game)|Really Big Sky]]''
* ''Revenge Of The Mutant Camels'' (yes, really)
* ''[[RPG Shooter Starwish]]''
* ''[[R-Type (Video Game)|R-Type]]'' series
* ''[[Scramble (Video Game)|Scramble]]''
** ''Super Cobra'' (which uses the same engine)
* ''[[Shark Attack (Video Game)|Shark Attack]]''
* ''[[Soldner X]]''
* ''[[Stargunner (Video Game)|Stargunner]]''
* ''[[Steel Empire (Video Game)|Steel Empire]]''
* ''[[Steel Saviour]]''
* ''[[Submarine Attack]]''
* ''[[Suguri]]''
** ''[[Sora (Video Game)|Sora]]''
* ''[[Thunder Cross (Video Game)|Thunder Cross]]'' and sequel
* ''[[Thunder Force (Video Game)|Thunder Force]]'' (early games include top down multi-direction level)
* ''[[Trouble Witches]]'' series
* ''[[Vacant Ark]]''
* ''[[Vanguard (Video Game)|Vanguard]]'' (which also had some vertical and diagonal scrolling)
* ''[[Wings of Genesis]]''
* ''[[Xexyz (Video Game)|Xexyz]]'' (only one in three levels)
* ''[[Zero Wing (Video Game)|Zero Wing]]''

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