Abandonware DOS title

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.
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FlixMix

DOS1993 Celeris
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Inve$t

DOS1990 Starbyte Software
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Laserwars

DOS1994
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Pick 'n Pile

DOS1990 UBI Soft
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Power Struggle

DOS1988 Personal Software Services
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QBasic Nibbles

DOS1991freeware Microsoft
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Squarez Deluxe!

DOS1993freeware Adept Software
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Tag Team Wrestling

DOS1986 Technos Japan
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TKO

DOS1989protected Accolade
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Zoop

DOS1995 Hookstone
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Evolution

DOS1983 Sydney Development
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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 ...
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Elevator

DOS1986freeware Wordworks Software
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Meteor Mission

DOS1995
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Pack-Man

DOS1983remake Magicom Multimedia
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Encounter

DOS1984
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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...
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Marble Cooking

DOS1994NSFW Negative
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Devastator

DOS1984 COMPUTE! Publications
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Galactic Battle

DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing
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Wordtris

DOSMac OS1991
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Grand Slam Bridge

DOS1986 Cybron corporation
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No Exit

DOS1990 Coktel Vision
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Rebound

DOS1985 COMPUTE! Publications
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Vegas Gambler

DOS1987 Logical Design Works
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Scrabble

DOS1992 U.S. Gold
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Yuppi's Revenge

DOS1988 Ariolasoft