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The most popular top down games

Top down games were very popular in the 80s and the 90s, when graphic cards were not capable of supporting 3D, and even when 3D started to become popular, 2D games continued to be easier to develop, at least in the infancy of 3D gaming. 2D game offered the player a viewpoint that helped keeping things easily under control (think about top down party-based RPGs or hex-based strategy games).
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Nuclear War

DOS19894/5 New World Computing
Nuclear War is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by Eric Hyman and Jon Van Caneghem. Nuclear War was developed and released by New World Computing in 1989 for Amiga and, later, for DOS, and it's loosely based on a card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...
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Ambush at Sorinor

DOS19933.7/5 Mindcraft Software
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Colonization

DOSWindows 3.xLinuxMac OS1994protected4.2/5 MicroProse Software
Colonization is a turn-based strategy 4x game developed and published by MicroProse in 1994 for DOS, Windows 3.1, Linux and Mac. The setting is the European Colonization of the New World. Colonization gameplay and interface are similar to Civilization, another Sid Meier game. However, there are some differences between Civilization and Colonization...
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Locomotion

DOS19924.2/5 Prestige Softwareentwicklung
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Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM) v1.1

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1996freeware3.9/5
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Poko Memorial: 18 Hole Miniature Golf

DOS19872.3/5 Gold Hill Software
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Hannibal

DOS19933.5/5 Starbyte Software
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Pack-Man

DOS1983remake3.4/5 Magicom Multimedia
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Sid Meier's Pirates!

DOS1987protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software
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Lords of the Realm

DOSWindows XP/98/951994protected4/5 Impressions Games
Lords of the Realm is top-down kingdom simulation game set in medieval Europe (England and Germany), designed by Christopher J. Foster and David Lester, developed by Impressions Games and released 1994 for DOS, Windows and Amiga.
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Panzer General 2

Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Highway Fighter

DOS19954/5 Safari Software
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Emperor of the Fading Suns

Windows XP/98/9519964.1/5 Holistic Design
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The Great War: 1914 - 1918

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Blue Byte Software
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Rodent's Revenge

Windows 3.x19914.1/5 Microsoft
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Alien Syndrome

DOS19894.3/5 Sega
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Panzer General

DOS1994protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Panger General is a turn based strategy wargame developed by SSI set in World War 2. The player can choose Axis or Allies and fight against the AI or another human player in more than 30 scenarios on a classic hex based map.
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Logo

DOS1990NSFW3.8/5 Starbyte Software
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Galaxy

DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
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Mine Shaft

DOS19834.1/5 Sierra On-Line
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CD-Man v2.0

DOS19924.1/5 Creative Dimensions
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Psycho Pinball

DOS19954.2/5 Codemasters
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Italy 1990

DOS19903.9/5 Tiertex Design Studios
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Phantasie 3: The Wrath of Nikademus

DOS19874.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes

DOS1990protected4/5 id software
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Minesweeper

Windows 3.x19924/5 Microsoft
Microsoft Minesweeper is an iconic puzzle game that has been included with Microsoft Windows operating systems since Windows 3.1. The game's objective is to clear a rectangular board containing hidden mines without detonating any of them. The player clicks on a square to reveal what's underneath, and numbers are displayed to indicate how many mines...
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Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed

DOS1992protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is a CRPG developed by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. and released in 1992 for DOS only. Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is the sequel to Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday and it's based on a campaign setting created by TSR in the late 80s. The game uses the Gold Box engine, common to much of the RPGs developed by SSI.
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Sexy Droids

DOS1992NSFW3.8/5 Eleven Software
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Command Adventures: Starship

DOS19953.6/5 Future Vision
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Starflight

DOS19864.1/5 Binary Systems
Starflight is a classic space exploration and role-playing video game released in 1986 by Binary Systems and published by Electronic Arts. It is known for its innovative gameplay, as well as its open-ended approach to space exploration and storytelling.The game is set in a massive, procedurally generated universe with thousands of star systems to e...