Belt scroller

Game genre concept

A slightly slanted perspective (almost side view, isometric or similar) games where game is played on a mostly left or right progressing field with limited depth towards and away from the camera. Commonly used by beat 'em ups.

208
games
42
platforms
Not all beat 'em ups are belt scrollers and some belt scrollers might not be beat 'em ups, belt scroller is however often recognized as synonym for beat 'em ups.

The characters are commonly from directly side view perspective while the ground and environment itself is isometric.

Example from Golden Axe:


The name likely comes from the playfield resembling a conveyer belt.

Popular tags

dungeoncrawler hackandslash runandgun

Parent group

Beat 'em up

Games by year

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The first Belt scroller video game was released in 1986.

Sega, U.S. Gold and Capcom published most of these games.

Platforms

Arcade 28
Amstrad CPC 16
Amiga 16
ZX Spectrum 13
Windows 11
Atari ST 11
C64 10
MS-DOS 10
NES 10
Mega Drive 10
SNES 9
Master System 7
Linux 6
MSX 5
Neo-Geo 4
Amiga CD32 4
Game Gear 3
iOS 3
GBA 3
PS3 2
Apple II E 2
Mac OS X 2
GB 2
Amstrad PCW 2
PC Engine CD 2
Amiga AGA 1
Thomson 1
X360 1
Jaguar 1
X68000 1