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The most popular fixed screen 2D games

In a fixed-screen 2D game, the gameplay is confined to a single screen with no vertical or horizontal scrolling. The screen remains static, and the overall gameplay occurs within the boundaries of this fixed screen.
Fixed-screen games were common in the early days of video gaming, especially in arcade games. This design was largely due to technical limitations of early hardware, which made scrolling more difficult to implement. As a result, many early arcade classics, such as Pac-Man or Space Invaders, relied on fixed-screen mechanics.
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Duck Hunt

DOS1995freewareremake
Duck Hunt is a faithful remake based on the original light gun game Duck Hunt published by Nintendo in 1984. Duck Hunt was a shooting gallery game with a straightforward gameplay: use your gun to shoot down ducks. If you...
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Ms Pac PC

DOS1995remake Magicom Multimedia
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Blasteroids

DOS1989 Atari
Blasteroids is a video game developed and released by Atari, Inc. in 1987. It's a sequel to the classic arcade game Asteroids, which was released in 1979. In Blasteroids, players control a spaceship tasked with destroying asteroid...
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X-Fighter

DOS1987 Wordworks Software
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Arcade Volleyball

DOS1987
In Arcade Volleyball (1987), two pixelated figures smack a ball over a net with all the grace of caffeinated stick figures. It's simple, it's bizarre, and it somehow manages to be insanely fun—especially when your opponent s...
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CHAMP Ms. Pac-man

DOS1994remake ChamProgramming corp.
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Popcorn

DOS1988freeware Lacral Software
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Knight Games

DOS1988 Mastertronic
Olympic games were something back in the 80s and the 90s: Winter Games, Summer Games, California Games, anything-you-can-think-of games. Some imaginative developer thought that the world needed a different kind of "multisport" act...
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Hard Hat Mack

DOS1984
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Oil's Well

DOS1984 Sierra On-Line
Oil's Well is an action-puzzle game released by Sierra On-Line in 1983/84. It was originally made for platforms like the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS, but was later ported to other systems. The game is set in an...
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Trivial Pursuit

DOS1989
Trivial Pursuit is a popular trivia board game that was adapted into a computer game for various platforms, including DOS. In the game, players answer trivia questions from various categories in order to collect pie pieces th...
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Math Circus

DOS1993
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Designasaurus

DOS1988 Compton's NewMedia
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Low blow

DOS1990 Synergistic Software
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Rockstar!

DOS1989 Wizard Games
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Gremlins

DOS1984 Atari
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Rollo and the Brush Brothers

DOS1983 Windmill Software
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Crossfire

DOS1982 Sierra On-Line
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Pac Gal

DOS1982
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Autobots

DOS1989
Before Michael Bay got his hands on the franchise, Autobots (1989, DOS) offered a more... subtle approach to transforming robot mayhem. Well, not subtle exactly — more like confusing. You drive around a blocky city, fight va...
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Willy the Worm

DOS1985
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Evolution

DOS1983 Sydney Development
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Styx

DOS1984 Windmill Software
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Galactic Battle

DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing
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Meteor Mission

DOS1995
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Guns 'R' Us

DOS1993 Future Vision
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Monopoly

DOS1985
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World Karate Championship

DOS1986 System 3
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Jumpman Lives!

DOS1991remake Apogee Software