Top-down perspective sorted by release date

Top down games

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  Omega

  DOSLinux1988freeware3.8/5
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  Questron 2

  DOS1988protected3.8/5 Westwood Studios
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  Rack 'em

  DOS19883.5/5 Artech Studios
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  Rambo 3

  DOS19883.5/5 Ocean Software
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  Scavengers of the Mutant World

  DOS19883.9/5 Interstel Corporation
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  Skate or Die

  DOS19884.3/5 Electronic Arts

  Skate or Die is an abandoned sports game, developed and released by Electronic Arts in 1988 for DOS and a number of other platforms. Skate or Die is a multi-sport kind of game, including every kind of unconventional "sport" done on skateboard. A sequel, Ski or Die, was released an year later.

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  Speedball

  DOS19884.2/5 Bitmap Brothers
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  Star Command

  DOS1988protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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  Star Goose!

  DOS19884/5 Logotron

  Star Goose is a classic video game developed by Logotron and released in 1988 for various home computer systems of that era, including the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC. It is a top-down, vertically scrolling shooter that combines elements of shoot 'em up gameplay with exploration and power-up mechanics.

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  Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny

  DOS19884.2/5 Origin Systems
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  Uridium

  DOS19883.9/5 Hewson Consultants

  Uridium is an abandoned DOS science fiction side-scrolling shoot'em up designed by Andrew Braybrook. It was developed by Hewson Consultants and published by Mindscape for DOS in 1988. The original C64 version of Uridium won the Golde Joystick Award in 1986.

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  Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown

  DOS19883.8/5 Mindscape

  Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown is an abandoned simulation game with role-playing elements developed by Mindscape and released in 1988 exclusively for DOS. Visions of the Aftermath is one of the few early examples of games involving survival in a post-apocalyptic environment.

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  Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign

  DOS19883.8/5 Cases Computer Simulations
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  War in Middle Earth

  DOS19884/5 Synergistic Software
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  Xenon

  DOS19883.9/5 Bitmap Brothers

  Xenon is an abandoned vertical scrolling classic shoot'em up developed by Bitmap Brothers and released in 1988 for DOS. It was also published for ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST, C64. Xenon was followed by the much acclaimed Xenon 2: Megablast.

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  Zoom!

  DOS19884.2/5
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  007: License to Kill

  DOS19894/5 Quixel
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  A Nightmare on Elm street

  DOS19893.9/5 Westwood Studios
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  A-Maze

  DOS19894.1/5 New Era Software
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  Acquire

  DOS19893.9/5 IBM
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  Action Fighter

  DOS19893.9/5 Sega
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  Action in the North Atlantic

  DOS19893.8/5 General Quarters Software
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  Ajax

  DOS19893.4/5 Konami
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  Alien Syndrome

  DOS19894.2/5 Sega
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  APB

  DOS19894/5 Atari
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  Aspar GP Master

  DOS19893.8/5 Dinamic Multimedia
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  Austerlitz 1805

  DOS19893.9/5 Cornerstone Software
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  Autobots

  DOS19893.2/5
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  Ballistix

  DOS19893.8/5 Reflections Interactive
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  Bandit Kings of Ancient China

  DOS19893.9/5 KOEI