A side-scrolling video game (alternatively side-scroller ) is a game viewed from a side-view camera angle where the screen follows the player as they move left or right. The jump from single-screen or flip-screen graphics to scrolling graphics during the golden age of arcade games was a pivotal leap in game design, comparable to the move to 3D graphics during the fifth generation .
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72-507: A mini-map radar. Scramble , released by Konami in early 1981, had continuous scrolling in a single direction and was the first side-scroller with multiple distinct levels . The first scrolling platform game was Jump Bug , a platform-shooter released in 1981. Players controlled a bouncing car and navigated it to jump on various platforms like buildings, clouds, and hills. While it primarily scrolls horizontally, one section includes coarse vertical scrolling. Taito 's first attempt at
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144-466: A genre that lasted nearly 5 years. The game was designed as Technos Japan 's spiritual successor to Renegade , but it took the genre to new heights with its detailed set of martial arts attacks and its outstanding two-player cooperative gameplay. Double Dragon ' s success largely resulted in a flood of beat 'em ups that came in the late 1980s, where acclaimed titles such as Golden Axe and Final Fight (both 1989) distinguished themselves from
180-453: A new studio within Capcom that was founded in 2004. Viewtiful Joe 2 features both Viewtiful Joe and Sexy Silvia as playable characters with similar gameplay elements to the first game. Hideki Kamiya has expressed wanting to return to the series since leaving Capcom. In 2017, in an interview with Dengeki PlayStation , he addressed his former employer that he would want to work on a remake of
216-599: A poor 9,912 units in its first week of release in Japan. Worldwide, sales of the game reached 275,000 copies on the GameCube and 46,000 on the PlayStation 2. Sales of the game in both North America and Europe were lower than what Capcom had predicted, but due to its small budget, the game was considered by Inaba to be relatively successful commercially. Side-scrolling video game Hardware support of smooth scrolling backgrounds
252-430: A side-scrolling platformer was the arcade game Jungle King (1982), later altered and renamed to Jungle Hunt due to legal controversy over similarities to Tarzan . The side-scrolling format was enhanced by parallax scrolling , which gives an illusion of depth. The background images are presented in multiple layers that scroll at different rates, so objects closer to the horizon scroll slower than objects closer to
288-829: A side-scrolling format, along with adapting elements from two Hong Kong martial arts films, Bruce Lee 's Game of Death (1973) and Jackie Chan 's Wheels on Meals (1984), and had elements such as end-of-level boss battles as well as health meters for the player character and bosses. The side-scrolling character action game format was popular from the mid-1980s to the 1990s. Popular examples included ninja action games such as Taito 's The Legend of Kage (1985) and Sega's Shinobi (1987), beat 'em up games such as Technōs Japan 's Renegade (1986) and Double Dragon (1987), and run and gun video games such as Namco 's Rolling Thunder (1986) and Treasure 's Gunstar Heroes (1993). Legend of Kage notably had levels that extend in all directions, while maintained
324-507: A side-scrolling view, including Nintendo 's Excitebike SNK 's Jumping Cross . and Mystic Marathon from Williams Electronics , a footrace between fantasy creatures. In 1985, Konami's side-scrolling shooter: Gradius gave the player greater control over the choice of weaponry, thus introducing another element of strategy. The game also introduced the need for the player to memorize levels in order to achieve any measure of success. Gradius , with its iconic protagonist, defined
360-477: A side-view format. On home computers , such as the martial arts game Karateka (1984) successfully experimented with adding plot to its fighting game action, and was also the first side-scroller to include cutscenes . Character action games also include scrolling platform games like Super Mario Bros. (1985), Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) and Bubsy (1993). Super Mario Bros. in particular, released for
396-476: A simple platformer with horizontally scrolling levels and first mascot character. Namco followed up Pac-Land with the fantasy-themed Dragon Buster the following year. Nintendo's platform game Super Mario Bros. , designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, became the archetype for many scrolling platformers to follow. It established many of
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#1732849047995432-795: A team of developers within Capcom Production Studio 4 known as Team Viewtiful . The game was released for the GameCube on June 26, 2003, in Japan , and in October 2003 in North America and Europe . Viewtiful Joe centers around the avid movie-goer Joe, who is thrust into Movie Land, transforms into the superhero " Viewtiful Joe " and sets out to rescue his girlfriend Silvia. The gameplay features traditional 2D platform side-scrolling intermixed with 3D cel-shaded graphics. A PlayStation 2 version
468-462: Is a side scrolling beat 'em up video game franchise created by Japanese game designer Hideki Kamiya . It is primarily developed and published by Capcom and its subsidiary Clover Studio . The first game in the series was directed by Hideki Kamiya , who had previously directed Resident Evil 2 and Devil May Cry . It was the second title to be released under the Capcom Five , developed by
504-535: Is built into many arcade video games , some game consoles, and home computers. Examples include 8-bit systems like the Atari 8-bit computers and Nintendo Entertainment System , and 16-bit consoles, such as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis . These 16-bit consoles added multiple layers, which can be scrolled independently for a parallax scrolling effect. Sega 's Bomber
540-456: Is considered one of the strongest beat 'em up titles for its fantasy elements, distinguishing it from the urban settings seen in other beat 'em ups. In 1984, Pac-Land took the scrolling platform game a step further. It was not only a successful title, but it more closely resembled later scrolling platformers like Wonder Boy and Super Mario Bros. It also has multi-layered parallax scrolling . The same year, Sega released Flicky ,
576-467: The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console, had a significant impact on the game industry, establishing the conventions of the scrolling platform genre and helping to reinvigorate the North American home video game market (which had crashed in 1983 ). It combined the platform gameplay of Donkey Kong (1981) and Mario Bros. (1983) with side-scrolling elements from the racer Excitebike and
612-480: The proof-of-concept game Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement , which was a clone of the first level of Super Mario Bros. 3 , but with Mario replaced by the character Dangerous Dave of earlier Softdisk games. The success of the demonstration led Carmack and others at Softdisk to resign and form their own company, id Software . Id Software went on to develop Commander Keen that same year, which
648-499: The beat 'em up Kung-Fu Master , and was more expansive than earlier side-scrollers, striking a balance between arcade-like action and longer play sessions suited for home systems. In 1984, Hong Kong cinema -inspired Kung-Fu Master laid the foundations for side-scrolling beat 'em ups , by simplifying the combat of Karate Champ and introducing numerous enemies along a side-scrolling playfield. In 1986, Technōs Japan 's Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun introduced street brawling to
684-542: The conventions of the side-scrolling platform genre and struck a balance between arcade-like action and longer play sessions suited for home systems, helping to reinvigorate the North American home video game market. Compared to earlier platformers, Super Mario Bros. was more expansive, with the player having to "strategize while scrolling sideways" over long distances across colorful levels aboveground as well as underground. Its side-scrolling elements were influenced by two earlier side-scrollers that Miyamoto's team worked on,
720-400: The core gameplay consisting of fighting large groups of weaker enemies, using attacks/weapons such as punches, kicks, guns, swords, ninjutsu or magic. The most notable early example was Irem 's Kung-Fu Master (1984), the first and most influential side-scrolling martial arts action game. It adapted combat mechanics similar to single-screen fighting game Karate Champ (1984) for
756-511: The distance between them. Moon Patrol is often credited with popularizing parallax scrolling. Jungle Hunt also had parallax scrolling and was released the same month as Moon Patrol in June 1982. Activision published two side-scrolling racing games for the Atari VCS in 1982: the biplane-based Barnstorming and the top-view Grand Prix . By 1984, there were other racing games played from
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#1732849047995792-464: The early 1990s and with the popularity of 16-bit consoles , the scrolling shooter genre was overcrowded, with developers struggling to make their games stand out. Side-scrolling was a well-known phenomenon in arcades, and various home computer and console games of the 1980s, as they often possessed hardware optimized for the task like the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64 , but IBM compatibles did not. Smooth scrolling on IBM PCs in software
828-452: The first Viewtiful Joe . During PAX East 2020, Kamiya told attendees to "email Capcom" to get sequels to dormant franchises, including Viewtiful Joe . He later said he would like to finish the series with a third entry, as well as seeing a Nintendo Switch version of the first game. An anime TV series based on the video game series, simply titled Viewtiful Joe , was produced by Group TAC and aired from 2004 to 2005. A manga series
864-442: The games that came after received a mixed-to-positive response and did not sell well. In Japan, the GameCube version of Viewtiful Joe sold through its initial shipment of less than 100,000 copies during the week of its release. Preorders of the GameCube version sold out on Capcom's North American website prior to its ship date, and Viewtiful Joe debuted as the tenth best-selling game in the region. The PlayStation 2 version sold
900-531: The genre during the 8-bit console generation. Sega attempted to emulate this success with their Alex Kidd series, as well as with the Wonder Boy series. The later Wonder Boy games were also notable for combining adventure and role-playing elements with traditional platforming. In 1984, Hover Attack for the Sharp X1 was an early run & gun shooter that freely scrolled in all directions and allowed
936-410: The genre. The Western adaptation Renegade (released the same year) added an underworld revenge plot that proved more popular with gamers than the principled combat sport of other games. Renegade set the standard for future beat 'em up games as it introduced the ability to move both horizontally and vertically . In 1987, the release of Double Dragon ushered in a "Golden Age" for the beat 'em up
972-482: The others. Final Fight was Capcom's intended sequel to Street Fighter (provisionally titled Street Fighter '89 ), but the company ultimately gave it a new title. Acclaimed as the best game in the genre, Final Fight spawned two sequels and was later ported to other systems. Golden Axe was acclaimed for its visceral hack and slash action and cooperative mode and was influential through its selection of multiple protagonists with distinct fighting styles. It
1008-423: The player to shoot diagonally as well as straight ahead. 1985 saw the release of Thexder , a breakthrough title for platform shooters. Run and gun video games became popular during the mid-to-late 1980s, with titles such as Konami 's Green Beret (1985) and Namco 's Rolling Thunder (1986). 1987's Contra was acclaimed for its multi-directional aiming and two-player cooperative gameplay. However, by
1044-453: The racer Excitebike and the NES port of beat 'em up Kung-Fu Master . It used the same game engine as Excitebike , which allowed Mario to accelerate from a walk to a run, rather than move at a constant speed like earlier platformers. Super Mario Bros. went on to sell over 40 million copies according to the 1999 Guinness Book of World Records . Its success contributed greatly to popularizing
1080-585: The side-scrolling shoot 'em up and spawned a series spanning several sequels. In the mid-1980s, side-scrolling character action games (also called "side-scrolling action games" or side-scrolling "character-driven" games) emerged, combining elements from earlier side-view, single-screen character action games, such as single-screen platform games , with the side-scrolling of space/vehicle games, such as scrolling space shoot 'em ups . These new side-scrolling character-driven action games featured large characters sprites in colorful, side-scrolling environments, with
1116-534: The title Black Emperor . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Emperor&oldid=1101783637 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Viewtiful Joe Viewtiful Joe ( Japanese : ビューティフル ジョー , Hepburn : Byūtifuru Jō )
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1152-454: The viewer. Some parallax scrolling was used in Jump Bug . It used a limited form of parallax scrolling with the main scene scrolling while the starry night sky is fixed and clouds move slowly, adding depth to the scenery. The following year, Irem 's Moon Patrol (1982) implemented a full form of parallax scrolling, with three separate background layers scrolling at different speeds, simulating
1188-417: Was a challenge for developers. There were a small number of PC ports of smooth scrolling arcade games in the early 1980s, including Moon Patrol and Defender . The second version of Sopwith , released in 1986, also featured smooth scrolling. In 1990 John Carmack , then working for Softdisk , developed a smooth scrolling technique known as adaptive tile refresh . The technique was demonstrated in
1224-459: Was a side-scrolling shooter video game released for arcades in April 1977. Side-scrolling was later popularized by side-scrolling shoot 'em ups in the early 1980s. Defender , demonstrated by Williams Electronics in late 1980 and entering production in early 1981, allowed side-scrolling in both directions in a wrap-around game world, extending the boundaries of the game world, while also including
1260-547: Was developed in 2004 by Clover Studio featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series as a playable character. The second game in the series was directed by Masaaki Yamada, with Hideki Kamiya writing the story. The game was released for both the GameCube and PlayStation 2 in 2004 in North America and Japan , and in 2005 in Europe and Australia . The game would be the first title to be fully developed by Clover Studio ,
1296-508: Was published concurrently in V Jump magazine. Viewtiful Joe appears as a playable character in the Wii version of the 2008 fighting game Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars . He also appears as a playable character in the 2011 fighting games Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 , and the 2013 mobile game Combo Crew . The first two Viewtiful Joe games received critical acclaim. However,
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