The best 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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DOS1990
Zyconix
DOS1992protected Miracle games
Imagine Tetris went on a sugar binge and had an identity crisis. That’s Zyconix (1992, DOS) in a nutshell. It’s a tile-matching puzzle game where nothing quite behaves how you expect it to, and that’s half the fu...
Crazy Nick's Parlor Games with Laura Bow
DOS1992 Sierra On-Line
BitStorm
DOS1999
1999’s BitStorm is what happens when someone decides to make a strategy game and forgets to put the brakes on the caffeine. It’s fast, it’s furious, and you’ll probably lose your first five games before rea...
Bolo Ball
DOS1992 Soleau Software
Bolo Ball is a DOS game from the mid-1990s. It features a physics-based gameplay where the objective is to knock opponent balls out of an arena. When you start the game, you find yourself in a 2D arena set against a starry, space-...
Bubble Trouble
Windows XP/98/951998
Here comes another bubble game—but this one packs a punch. Bubble Trouble is a frantic shoot-’em-up where you pop evil bouncing bubbles before they bounce you out of existence. It’s part arcade mayhem, part refle...
Dragons: A Challenge in Chivalry
DOS1986
Fisher-Price Firehouse Rescue
DOS1988 GameTek
Inve$t
DOS1990 Starbyte Software
Laserwars
DOS1994
Pick 'n Pile
DOS1990 UBI Soft
Power Struggle
DOS1988 Personal Software Services
QBasic Nibbles
DOS1991freeware Microsoft
Squarez Deluxe!
DOS1993freeware Adept Software
Super Battleship
DOS1988
Super Bubble Mania
DOS1997
Tag Team Wrestling
DOS1986 Technos Japan
The Price is Right
DOS1990
TKO
DOS1989protected Accolade
Tournament Tennis
DOS1985
Zoop
DOS1995 Hookstone
Imagine if Tetris, Columns, and a pack of highlighters had a baby. That’s Zoop. You’re in the center of the screen, and colorful shapes are marching toward you from all sides like angry abstract art. Your job? Blast th...
Evolution
DOS1983 Sydney Development
Air Trax
DOS1983
Ah yes, Air Trax from 1983 - a game where “flight” is more of a philosophical concept. It’s clunky, it's slow, and it looks like it was coded in someone’s garage (because it probably was). But there’s...
Elevator
DOS1986freeware Wordworks Software
Meteor Mission
DOS1995
Marble Cooking
DOS1994NSFW Negative
Pack-Man
DOS1983remake Magicom Multimedia
Encounter
DOS1984
15x15 Picture Puzzle
DOS1996freeware
This game is either a delightful brain teaser or a slow descent into madness, depending on how patient you are. 15x15 Picture Puzzle gives you a scrambled mess of tiny square tiles and challenges you to rearrange them into a beaut...
Devastator
DOS1984 COMPUTE! Publications