Flip-screens
Software concept
Exiting a screen or area expediently places the character on the opposite side of the screen in an adjacent area in the game world. Common for games predating scrolling movement.
147
games
44platforms
Alternate names: flick-screen, page-flipping
COCO 1983
SPC 1988
FMT 1992-06
CPC 1987
VCS 1979
CPC 1991
ST 1990-09
PECD 1991-08-11
C64 1984
CPC 1990
DOS 1984
OCS 2014
This is not by default edge scrolling but can be depending how it is implemented (flipping itself implies not).
This is NOT synonym for games where the whole level/map takes a single screen which is changed with level change.
This is NOT synonym for games where the whole level/map takes a single screen which is changed with level change.
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Games by year
The first Flip-screens video game was released in 1979.
The Learning Company, Opera Soft and Gremlin Graphics published most of these games.
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Platforms
ZX Spectrum | 16 | ||
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Apple II E | 16 | ||
Tandy Coco | 14 | ||
Linux | 12 | ||
C64 | 11 | ||
Amstrad CPC | 8 | ||
Amiga | 6 | ||
MS-DOS | 6 | ||
Atari 2600 | 5 | ||
MSX | 4 | ||
Mac OS Classic | 3 | ||
FM Towns | 3 | ||
C16/Plus4 | 3 | ||
NES | 3 | ||
QL | 2 | ||
Flash | 2 | ||
NEC PC9801 | 2 | ||
Atari ST | 2 | ||
Atari 400/800 | 2 | ||
Mac OS X | 2 | ||
BBC | 2 | ||
Master System | 1 | ||
MSX2 | 1 | ||
OS/2 | 1 | ||
ABC 80 | 1 | ||
Amstrad PCW | 1 | ||
Commander X16 | 1 | ||
Mega-CD | 1 | ||
TI Calculators | 1 | ||
HP 48 | 1 |