History Main / AutoScrollingLevel

* {{Canabalt}} ''is'' one of these.
* ''Videogame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'' has several automatically scrolling vertical shafts. In the case of Blocks 5-0B and 9-03, the scrolling is discontinuous--every few seconds the tower trembles and sinks a bit into the ground.
* ''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.]]

It's debatable if MinecartMadness is a subtrope. It takes the concept further by forcing the player to move a fixed speed, and challenges them to jump, duck, and\or attack at the right times.

** Some of the most [[ThatOneLevel annoying platforming segments]] in the ''Subspace Emissary'' mode of Brawl featured this too. The worst ones also included traps that would ''fling you offscreen'' if you made one misstep. Even if you can keep up with the scrolling camera admist the hordes of GoddamnBats, trying to [[GottaCatchEmAll collect the trophies and other goodies to earn 100%]] ''at the same time'' almost reaches controller-breaking levels of frustration - especially on the hardest difficulties.

** In ''Rayman 3'', after you blow up the furnace in Hoodlum Headquarters, you have to climb up a tall tower while lava rises below you.

**** It's not the camera that's scrolling, all the platforms just start moving down. If you stay in the air, Your character should be fine.

* This is every level in the vertically scrolling ''VideoGame/RaptorCallOfTheShadows''. It is at least somewhat justified, as an airborne jet can hardly be expected to remain stationary with respect to the ground.

** In Angel Island Zone, Act 2 of ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic The Hedgehog 3]]'', there's a portion before the BossBattle where the screen starts scrolling to the right, then Robotnik's airship starts dropping bombs at you. If you let off the speed for a second, [[AdvancingWallOfDoom you'll drift too far left and get hit]]. All you have to do is hold right for two minutes.

* Sky Chase Zone in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2''.

* Seen in the doujin game ''NewSuperMarisaLand'' by Tasogare Frontier. Which makes sense as it's essentially a Super Mario clone.

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry 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.
* Sky Chase Zone in ''SonicTheHedgehog2''.

** The second act of the Bridge Zone in the first "Sonic the Hedgehog" for Master System (or Game Gear).

** And, just to be awesome, ''Sonic2006'' 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.

->"There's a stage where the screen keeps scrolling up. If you're caught at the bottom, you die. In Trevor Belmont's world, what killed him? The T.V. Screen?"

Often you will be mortally crushed if you get caught between the advancing side of the screen and a stationary wall, making the screen boundary a kind of AdvancingWallOfDoom. Only occasionally are these kinds of levels coupled with an ''actual'' Advancing Wall Of Doom, providing some meagre justification for the enforced scrolling. In vertical-scrolling levels, there will be an ever-rising bottomless pit, and solid platforms that fall below the edge of the screen will be consumed by an [[NothingIsScarier unknown]] [[FridgeHorror force]].

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

** In Mega Man 4, the third level of Dr. Cossack's fortress is one of these. It had a decent number of ways to slow you down to the screen's speed and was for the most part a pretty decent level. The CrowningMusicOfAwesome [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlRGotA3Yzs&feature=related doesn't hurt, either]].
** In Mega Man 5, 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.

*** Wily Stage 2's second half. It has an {{Homage}} to the {{Gradius}} series' High Speed Zone stages. It even comes with a the shutting doors and a song from the NES {{Gradius}} 2 soundtrack.
* Some of the early games in the ''VideoGame/AdventureIsland'' series.
* ''(Wonder Boy III): Monster Lair'' alternates between autoscrolling platform stages and ShootEmUp {{boss battle}}s.
* ''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?

* KidChameleon had a few of these that are [[AdvancingWallOfDoom Advancing Walls Of]] '''[[ThisIsADrill DRILLS]]''', including a cruel one that had a choice of two paths at the end, not knowing where they go. One path leads to a sign saying "TOO BAD" with no exit and you just get squished by it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Purple}}'' had this in stages 2-3 and 5-2. The latter had multi-directional one.

* ''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.
* ''DonkeyKongCountry 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/RaymanOrigins'' has some too, especially in the Tricky Treasure challenges.

* Some of the early games in the ''AdventureIsland'' series.

** From RomHack ''Rockman4MinusInfinity'':

* ''VideoGame/LittleNemoTheDreamMaster'' gave us House of Toys, a level that took place on the back of a moving toy train set where you had to survive divebombing toy airplanes, bombs dropped by toy hot air balloons and plenty of [[SpikesOfDoom instant death spikes]] on [[DescendingCeiling descending ceilings.]]

* ''[[LittleNemo Little Nemo: The Dream Master]]'' for the NES gave us House of Toys, a level that took place on the back of a moving toy train set where you had to survive divebombing toy airplanes, bombs dropped by toy hot air balloons and plenty of [[SpikesOfDoom instant death spikes]] on [[DescendingCeiling descending ceilings.]]

* The first ''{{Rayman}}'' game has a few of these, semi-justified by a raising water level or some [[AdvancingWallOfDoom big enemy chasing you]] (Moskito with a huge spiked ball, and Mr. Stone in a later level).

*** Sections of Skull Man's stage. It has ''every kind of platform from the Mega Man series. Plenty of lives will be lost on those sections.

*** Sections of Skull Man's stage. It has ''[[BeyondTheImpossible every kind of platform from the Mega Man series]]''. Plenty of lives will be lost on those sections.

-->-- '''WebOriginal/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', on ''Videogame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse''

* Many levels in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', ''Super Mario World 2: VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' and ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros''. The Atuo 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.

* Many levels in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', ''Super Mario World 2: VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' and ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros''. The {{Fixed Scrolling Level}}s 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.