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.
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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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...
The Cool Croc Twins
DOS1992 Arcade Masters
X-Fighter
DOS1987 Wordworks Software
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...
Robotron 2084
DOS1983 Williams Entertainment
CHAMP Ms. Pac-man
DOS1994remake ChamProgramming corp.
Popcorn
DOS1988freeware Lacral Software
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...
Hard Hat Mack
DOS1984
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 It was originally made for platforms like the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS, but was later ported to other systems.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...
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...
Visual Star Trek
DOS1990
Math Circus
DOS1993
Designasaurus
DOS1988 Compton's NewMedia
Low blow
DOS1990 Synergistic Software
Rockstar!
DOS1989 Wizard Games
Gremlins
DOS1984 Atari
Rollo and the Brush Brothers
DOS1983 Windmill Software
Crossfire
DOS1982 Sierra On-Line
Pac Gal
DOS1982
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...
Evolution
DOS1983 Sydney Development
Styx
DOS1984 Windmill Software
Meteor Mission
DOS1995
Monopoly
DOS1985
Jumpman Lives!
DOS1991remake Apogee Software
Jetpack: Christmas Special
DOS1993
Arcade Trivia Quiz
DOS1993
Think you're smart? Arcade Trivia Quiz (1993) is here to humble you with rapid-fire questions about pop culture, history, and whatever else the developers could fit on a floppy disk. It’s like playing Jeopardy! with a host w...
Super Stardust
DOS1996 Housemarque
PC Globe 5
DOS1987 Broderbund