Kind of scrolling in which you have several (usualy) 2D bitmap/tiled layers that scroll at different speeds giving a Different Depth Sense to the viewer.
It is usualy used in arcade games as the background world maps e.g. Jazz Jack Rabbit or Mortal Kombat series.
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