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Belt scroller

Game genre theme

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275
games
48
platforms

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.

Notable people involved: Isao Abe, Tomoshi Sadamoto, Yoshiki Okamoto, Noritaka Funamizu and Fuzzy

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 1983.

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

Platforms

Arcade50
Amstrad CPC18
ZX Spectrum17
Amiga17
Windows17
C6413
Atari ST13
NES11
Mega Drive11
SNES10
MS-DOS10
Master System9
Linux7
MSX6
Switch5
Amiga CD324
Game Gear4
Neo-Geo4
Mac OS X3
GBA3
PS43
Xbox One3
iOS3
PS32
Apple II E2
GB2
Atari 26002
GamePark 322
PS2
PC Engine CD2

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