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** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' features areas of Sonic's levels that have been dubbed by one speedrun as "Mach Speed Zones." Sonic is forced to run forward, jumping and dodging obstacles, and can not leave his assigned course by too much or get hit by too many objects unless he wants to breakdance into oblivion.

* The boat level in ''The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy''.

* Multiple levels in ''Nihilumbra'' have you chased by [[AdvancingWallOfDoom The Void.]]

* ''TinyToonAdventures: Buster Busts Loose'' (SNES) has some levels where [[AdvancingWallOfDoom the edge of the screen kills you]].

** The fixed scrolling in Stage 1 of Dr. Wily's Castle in ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' is brief, but very annoying the first time. 99% of the level scrolls normally, until the end when it suddenly begins to move on its own at a rate that's slightly slower than the player's movement. The transition seemingly happens in the middle of a jump between two one-block-wide platforms and if the unprepared player doesn't simply miss and fall into the bottomless pit, he'll soon be knocked in anyway when a giant dragon that takes up half the screen flies in behind him.

** The autoscrolling levels in ''Super Mario World 2: VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' include 1-5, E-1, 6-5, 6-Secret and part of 6-8. ''Yoshi's Island DS'' has these in 2-6, 3-1, 3-5, 4-Secret and 5-5. In both games, the scrolling screen will go in all sorts of different directions, crossing the same part of the level more than once in more than one different direction, and there's no justification of any sort.

* ''VideoGame/PuttPutt Goes to the Moon'' has the minigame ''[=Bear Stormin'=]'', which plays this straight for the entire game. This was later recycled as ''[=Circus Stormin'=]'' in ''PuttPutt and FattyBear's Activity Pack''. [[SurpriseDifficulty Despite being in games made for children, they can get brutally difficult.]]

** The music stages in ''VideoGame/RaymanLegends'', which are justified because of [[MickeyMousing their gimmick.]]

** ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld, both playing exactly like the 2D Mario games except on a 3D plane, have these.

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'' has "Ripsaw Rage" and "Kong-Fused Cliffs", which have a giant saw and the rope you're climbing burning as {{AdvancingWallOfDoom Advancing Walls of Doom]], respectively.

%%** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''

** ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand'', playing exactly like the 2D Mario games except on a 3D plane, has these.
* Many levels in ''[[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} Kirby's Dream Land 2]]'' and ''3''. ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' had two sections like this in the "Revenge of Meta Knight" subgame.
* ''[[DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble Donkey Kong Country 3]]'' has "Ripsaw Rage" and "Kong-Fused Cliffs", which have a giant saw and the rope you're climbing burning as [[AdvancingWallOfDoom Advancing Walls Of Doom]], respectively.

*** Wily Stage 2's second half. It has an {{Homage}} to the ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'' series' High Speed Zone stages. It even comes with a the shutting doors and a song from the NES ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}} 2'' soundtrack.

*** Rumble Mountain and Mushroomy Kingdom in ''Brawl''.
*** Mushroomy Kingdom and Dreamland in ''Smash 4 3DS''.

** In ''VideoGame/MegaMan5, there is a section at the latter half of Gyro Man's stage that is exactly this, and you must dodge the spikes that you are approaching.

If the scrolling is fixed such that it cannot be outrun, the level can be the bane of {{speedrun}}nners and players otherwise trying to finish the level quickly.

A level in a PlatformGame where the screen scrolls at a constant rate (like in [[ShootEmUps rail shooters]]), no matter where the player runs or jumps to. This doesn't make any sense at all, but since you didn't care when you were 12, why start now?

When the entire game is one of these, it's an EndlessRunningGame. Whether MinecartMadness is a subtrope is debatable; similar to endless runners, these levels force the character to move a fixed speed, challenging the player to jump, duck, and/or attack at the right times.

** The series features entire arenas that scroll through a continuous loop of level elements. An exmaple in ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' is Icicle Mountain.

* Many levels in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', ''Super Mario World 2: VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' and ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros''. The auto scrolling levels in ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' include 1-4, 3-6, 5-6, 5-9, 6-2, 6-7, 7-4 and all the airship/tank/navy levels.
** The Super Mario Bros. GameAndWatch from the 80's is fixed scrolling, the first example of this trope in the Mario series and maybe even Platformers in general.
** The autoscrolling levels in ''Yoshi's Island'' include 1-5, E-1, 6-5, 6-Secret and part of 6-8. ''Yoshi's Island DS'' has these in 2-6, 3-1, 3-5, 4-Secret and 5-5. In both games, the scrolling screen will go in all sorts of different directions, crossing the same part of the level more than once in more than one different direction, and there's no justification of any sort.
** Inverted in VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy. Only a part of the level 'exists', meaning that stepping outside the 'existing' area drops you in a bottomless pit. This gives the net effect the same as a fixed scrolling screen!
** Also inverted in parts of ''Super Mario World'' and ''New Super Mario Bros.'' with some castle levels having those crawling block platforms.
** Justified in one New Super Mario Bros. where the entire level takes place on the back on a giant Wiggler.

* Many levels in ''[[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} Kirby's Dream Land 2]]'' and ''3''.
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' had two sections like this in the "Revenge of Meta Knight" subgame.

* Sky Chase Zone in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' and its SpiritualSuccessor, Sky Fortress Zone Act 1 in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog4''.

** In ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic & Knuckles]]'', during the Boss Battle in Mushroom Hill Zone, Act 2, the screen scrolls right, forcing you to leap over spiked hurdles to pursue Robotnik.
** Later in the same game, the screen starts scrolling to the right during the boss battle of [[LethalLavaLand Lava Reef]] Zone, Act 2. The real danger of this area is simply jumping from platform to platform to keep up with the screen.
** Yet again, the Death Egg Zone FinalBoss, after you blow up its hands. The robot itself (and later, the collapsing platforms) also doubles as an AdvancingWallOfDoom.

** And, just to be awesome, ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' feature areas of Sonic's levels that have been dubbed by one speedrun as "Mach Speed Zones." Sonic is forced to run forward, jumping and dodging obstacles, and can not leave his assigned course by too much or get hit by too many objects unless he wants to [[strike:fly off]] breakdance into oblivion.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' features entire arenas that scroll through a continuous loop of level elements. Who can forget the most malevolent stage in ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'', Icicle Mountain?

* Every level in ''BalloonKid'' was one of these.
* The Subwarine levels in ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' The Shake Dimension were these.
** The first Wario Land had one of these as the first level in the Oven Canyon zone.
* Preceding the FinalBoss in ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'' is a forced-scroll level combined with TheMaze; it takes place underwater and scrolls up, down, sideways, doubles on itself, and [[MarathonLevel lasts a good five minutes]]. The only break the game cuts you is the level also continually regenerates your health, due to it being a giant meat grinder. Unfortunately, losing to the boss sends you back to the maze again...
** It even actively tries to fake you out at certain points, making you think you have to go a certain way and then turning back and trying to crush you when you do go that way. Or even making a tiny part of a chamber the only safe place where you won't get crushed. Almost no one will make it through the first time, due to the need to [[TrialAndErrorGameplay memorize the correct path in some places]].
** The sequel ''Tides of Time'' has at least four on hard mode. All other modes at least two.

** ''Pinball/SuperMarioBrosMushroomWorld'' also has a Frog Mario swimming game, where Mario moves automatically and the player makes him swim up and down to avoid enemies.

* In the first three [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry]] games, this manifests in the form of stages where you're riding a vehicle (a minecart, roller coaster, or toboggan depending on the game). It works because the screen IS still following you, you just can't stop your momentum so the feeling that you could finish things faster if the screen didn't autoscroll isn't there.
** ''Donkey Kong Country 3'' also has legitimate examples in "Ripsaw Rage" and "Kong-Fused Cliffs", each of which had some kind of AdvancingWallOfDoom.
"Stampede Sprint" in the Lost World is similar to a minecart/coaster/toboggan stage in execution, too.

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry 2'' has two [[AdvancingWallofDoom Rising Floors of Doom]]: Castle Crush and Slime Climb. The first is less frustrating, since you can ride the floor up - it can only kill you or enemies by crushing them against a ceiling. Conveniently, it will kill the flying wasp enemies on contact. Really, it's worse for the enemies of the level than it is for you.
* ''Donkey Kong Country 3'' had "Kong-Fused Cliffs" and "Ripsaw Rage", each of which had some kind of AdvancingWallOfDoom. Also, to an extent, "Stampede Sprint" in the Lost World.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand'', playing exactly like the 2d Mario games except on a 3d plane, has these.