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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Dragons: A Challenge in Chivalry
DOS1986
Fisher-Price Firehouse Rescue
DOS1988 GameTek
FlixMix
DOS1993 Celeris
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
Tag Team Wrestling
DOS1986 Technos Japan
TKO
DOS1989protected Accolade
Tournament Tennis
DOS1985
Zoop
DOS1995 Hookstone
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 charm in this pixelated mess. You guide your plane through narrow gaps while wondering why gravity has such a personal ...
Elevator
DOS1986freeware Wordworks Software
Meteor Mission
DOS1995
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 beautiful image that you’ll spend hours trying to recognize. It’s like doing a jigsaw puzzle with gloves on and a...
Marble Cooking
DOS1994NSFW Negative
Devastator
DOS1984 COMPUTE! Publications
Galactic Battle
DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing
Wordtris
DOSMac OS1991
Grand Slam Bridge
DOS1986 Cybron corporation
No Exit
DOS1990 Coktel Vision
Rebound
DOS1985 COMPUTE! Publications
Vegas Gambler
DOS1987 Logical Design Works
Scrabble
DOS1992 U.S. Gold
Yuppi's Revenge
DOS1988 Ariolasoft