History Main / FlipScreenScrolling

* ''SuperMarioBros2'' had continuous horizontal scrolling, with vertical scrolling occuring in intervals of three-fifths of a screen; although offscreen enemies and items were still accounted for and could drop in on the player from above.

** ''Dragon Slayer IV''/''LegacyOfTheWizard''

* The first ''Game/{{Castlevania}}'', like ''Mega Man'', only scrolled continuously in the horizontal direction within sub-levels; its counterpart for the {{MSX}}2, ''Vampire Killer'', used flip-scrolling exclusively.

* ''Game/{{Mantra}}'', being very closely inspired by TheLegendOfZelda, did this. May qualify as {{Retraux}}, since the classic Mac platforms needed a lot more power than the NES hardware Zelda was built on to do tile-based games because of the lack of hardware sprite support.

* The game version of [[GreenSkyTrilogy Below The Root]] encouraged the "edge of thew screen" trick to avoid hostile [=NPCs=].

* ''AnimalCrossing'' on the Gamecube features a form of this without the justification of limited technology. In addition, objects and characters continued to move and act, even across screen borders. {{Lampshaded}} by calling them "Acres". The DS and Wii games use continuous scrolling graphics but still use 16x16-cell acres internally, such as for placing buildings (never across an acre boundary), evaluating the environment (need a certain number of flowers per acre for a perfect score), and {{cap}}ping geometry density (no more than 6 trees per quarter acre).

* ''AnimalCrossing'' on the Gamecube featured a form of this without the justification of limited technology. In addition, objects and characters continued to move and act, even across screen borders. {{Lampshaded}} by calling them "Acres".

* The game version of [[GreenSkyTrilogy Below The Root]] encouraged the "edge of thew screen" trick to avoid hostile NPCs.

* ''Game/Mantra Mantra'', being very closely inspired by TheLegendOfZelda, did this. May qualify as {{Retraux}}, since the classic Mac platforms needed a lot more power than the NES hardware Zelda was built on to do tile-based games because of the lack of hardware sprite support.

* [[Game/Mantra Mantra]], being very closely inspired by TheLegendOfZelda, did this.

* The first ''Game/{{Castlevania}}'', like ''Mega Man'', only scrolled continuously in the horizontal direction within sub-levels; its counterpart for the MSX2, ''Vampire Killer'', used flip-scrolling exclusively.

* The first ''Game/{{Castlevania}}'', same as ''Mega Man'' The screen also flip-scrolled when entering the door to the next sub-level.

May be purposefully invoked in games featuring {{Retraux}} themes.

* All the ''{{Glider}}'' games do this, with a CheckPoint every room (probably common with this type of scrolling). The drawback of not being able to see surrounding rooms was remedied by 9-room mode in ''Glider PRO''. Rooms were titled in ''Glider 4.0'' and ''Glider PRO''; the former game even put the title of the room where you died on the High Scores list.

* ''MetalGear'' and ''MetalGear2: Solid Snake'', due to the MSX having no real support for screen-scrolling.

* ''DistortedTravesty''

* The first ''Game/{{Castlevania}}'', same as ''Mega Man''

* Many classic {{Adventure Game}}s, including those made by {{Sierra}} used discrete 'screens' with no transition effect between them, with NPCs and monsters (generally) limited to the screen they resided on.

A curious side effect of this is that, just as the game couldn't afford the memory to provide continuous scrolling, it couldn't afford the memory to keep track of whatever was offscreen, either; the screen edges essentially became borders to NPCs, monsters, attacks and projectiles alike, and ''only'' the player was able to cross from one screen to the next. Is there a hungry wolf bearing down on your [[KingsQuest Sir Graham]]? Simply run off the edge of the screen to the next, and it'll forget all about you.

* The popular {{NES}} system did, in fact, have greater support for continuous horizontal scrolling than vertical scrolling.

* ''SuperMarioBros2'' had continuous horizontal scrolling, with vertical scrolling occuring in full-screen intervals; although offscreen enemies and items were still accounted for and could drop in on the player from above.