History Main / FlipScreenScrolling

* ''{{Knytt}}'' and ''KnyttStories''.

* ''Kid Niki: Radical Ninja'' did this in the AppleII and {{Commodore 64}} versions.

* VideoGame/ShovelKnight mimics the scrolling of many classic games.

* ShovelKnight mimics the scrolling of many classic games.

* The 2D ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia'' games (flip).

* Many {{Platform Game}}s by Capcom based on Disney animations in the NES era like ''VideoGame/TheLittleMermaid'', ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' and ''VideoGame/DuckTales'' games.

* ''VideoGame/{{La-Mulana}}'', as part of its MSX theme, due to MSX hardware having little support for continuous scrolling. The remake gives a name to each room.

** Sierra's ''QuestForGlory'' series, however, allowed wandering monsters to pursue the player from one screen to the next.

** The first Gameboy title, ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Link's Awakening]]'', had exclusively "flip" scrolling.[[hottip:*:And glitch in it could be exploited for SequenceBreaking.]] The [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle games]] also used it on the overworld map, but added rooms bigger than the screen in dungeons.
*** It used this for both of the above-view moments and the 2D sections.
* In ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' classic, horizontal scrolling was generally continuous (doors and gates aside), while vertical scrolling occurred in full-screen intervals.

* ''Mighty Bomb Jack'' and ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' on the NES were careful to keep horizontal corridors separated from vertical shafts by doors.

* The NES version of ''Cybernoid'' flips from screen to screen when you reach the edge. However, it has a fun unit where an enemy appears just against the side you flipped in from.

* ''{{Faxanadu}}''. Ironically, this was averted in the PC88 and {{MSX}} game it was based on, ''DragonSlayerIIXanadu''.

* Many {{Platform Game}}s by Capcom based on Disney animations in the NES era like ''VideoGame/TheLittleMermaid'', ''DarkwingDuck'' and ''VideoGame/DuckTales'' games.

* All the ''{{Glider}}'' games do this, with a CheckPoint every room. 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.

* ''VideoGame/CastleWolfenstein''

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'' had map areas about twice bigger than the screen, giving it both a smooth scrolling within a map area and a "flip" scrolling from one area to the next.

* The 2D ''PrinceOfPersia'' games (flip).

* Many Games by Capcom based on Disney animations in the NES era like ''VideoGame/TheLittleMermaid'', ''DarkwingDuck'' and ''VideoGame/DuckTales'' games.

* The AmstradCPC port of ''Videogame/{{Contra}}'' (known as ''Gryzor'') scrolled by about two-thirds of a screen, in addition to its RatchetScrolling. The {{MSX}}2 version scrolled at screen boundaries.

* ''VideoGame/{{La-Mulana}}'', as part of its MSX theme, due to MSX hardware having little support for continuous scrolling.

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; [[BehindTheBlack 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.

** ''Dragon Slayer IV''/''LegacyOfTheWizard'' (sub-areas are the same width in both versions, though they're divided into five slightly overlapping screens on the MSX)

* ''{{Pitfall}}'' had this exclusively. The sequel introduced smooth scrolling, but only for vertical transitions.
* ''SmashTV'', using much the same excuse as ''The Legend of Zelda'': progress from one room to the next.

* ''TheGuardianLegend'', during the labyrinth areas.

* All the ''VideoGame/{{Hydlide}}'' games except ''Virtual Hydlide''.

* ''MagicalDoropie'' had full horizontal scrolling, but flips on vertical transitions, like the ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' clone it is.
* ''{{Spelunker}}'' (computer and NES versions) scrolls continuously in the ''vertical'' direction only.

* The NES version of ''Cybernoid'' flips from screen to screen when you reach the edge. However, it has a fun unit where an enemy appears just against the side you flipped in from.

* ''IWannaBeTheGuy''

* ''Kid Niki: Radical Ninja'' did this in the AppleII version.

** The first Gameboy title, ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Link's Awakening]]'', had exclusively "flip" scrolling.[[hottip:*:And glitch in it could be exploited for SequenceBreaking.]] The [[TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle games]] also used it on the overworld map, but added rooms bigger than the screen in dungeons.

* ''VideoGame/{{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 AmstradCPC port of ''Videogame/{{Contra}}'' (known as ''Gryzor'') scrolled by about two-thirds of a screen, in addition to its RatchetScrolling.

** ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}''/''Vampire Killer''

* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' and ''MetalGear2: Solid Snake'' on the [=MSX2=] used flip screen scrolling, as did the NES version of ''Metal Gear'' and ''SnakesRevenge''.