Top-down perspective
Top down games were very popular in the 80s and the 90s, when graphic cards were not capable of supporting 3D, and even when 3D started to become popular, 2D games continued to be easier to develop, at least in the infancy of 3D gaming. 2D game offered the player a viewpoint that helped keeping things easily under control (think about top down party-based RPGs or hex-based strategy games).
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High Command: Europe 1939-45
DOS19924.1/5 Colorado Computer Creations
Highway Fighter
DOS19954/5 Safari Software
Highway Hunter
DOS19943.2/5 Safari Software
Hill Street Blues
DOS19914/5 Krisalis
Hill Street Blues is an old DOS "driving" game developed by Krisalis in 1991. The gameplay it's similar to a Grand Theft Auto clone (we're talking about GTA 1 or 2) in which you are the police and you have to apprehend criminals. Hill Street Blues is a rare example of game based on a TV series.
Hillsfar
DOS1989protected3.8/5 Westwood Studios
Hole in One
DOS19953.8/5 Really Interesting Software Company
Homey D. Clown
DOS19933.5/5 Synergistic Software
House of Cards
DOS19893.3/5
IBM 9-Hole Miniature Golf
DOS19833/5 SoftSide Magazine
ICON: Quest for the Ring
DOS19843.6/5 Macrocom
If It Moves, Shoot It!
DOS19893.3/5 Emerald Software
Ikari III: The Rescue
DOS19903.4/5 SNK Corporation
Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road
DOS19883.6/5 SNK Corporation
Incursion
WindowsLinuxMac OS2007freeware4/5
Indenture
DOS1995remake4.1/5
Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures
Windows 3.xMac OS1996demo4.1/5 LucasArts
Infiltrator
DOS19874.3/5 Chris Gray Enterprises
Infiltrator 2
DOS19884.1/5 Chris Gray Enterprises
International Soccer
DOS19944/5 Zeppelin Games
Into the Eagle's Nest
DOS19873.9/5 Pandora
Iron Cross
DOS19943.8/5 New World Computing
Iron Lord
DOS19903.5/5 UBI Soft
Ishido: The Way of the Stones
DOSMac OS19903.8/5 Publishing International
It Came from the Desert
DOS1990freeware4.1/5 Cinemaware
It Came from the Desert is an abandonware action-adventure game developed by Cinemaware and released in 1990 for PC (DOS) and Amiga. It Came From the Desert is an action-adventure game with a peculiar flavor: it's set in the 50s, in the USA, and it's based on those old monster movies like Them! (also involving killer ants).
Italy 1990
DOS19904/5 Tiertex Design Studios
Ivan 'Iron Man' Stewart's Super Off Road
DOS19904.2/5 Leland
Ivan 'Iron Man' Stewart's Super Off Road is an abandoned diagonal-down off-road racing game developed by Leland and released by Virgin Interactive in 1990 for DOS, but also published for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, ZX Spectrum and a lot of 8-bit and 16-bit consoles. Super Off Road is a classic fixed-screen track-racing similar to S...
IVAN (Iter Vehemens ad Necem)
DOSWindowsLinuxMac OS2001freeware3.3/5
J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan
DOS19974.1/5 Papyrus Design Group
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I
DOS19904/5 Interplay Productions
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I is an abandoned fantasy top-down DOS RPG game set in the The Lord of the Rings universe. The Lord of the Rings I was developed and released by Interplay Productions in 1990. The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I is based on the popular The Lord Of The Rings book by J.R.R. Tolkien and it's focused on the f...
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers
DOS19924/5 Interplay Productions
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers is an abandoned fantasy top-down DOS RPG game set in the The Lord of the Rings universe. The Lord of the Rings II was developed and released by Interplay Productions in 1992. The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers is based on the popular The Lord Of The Rings book by J.R.R. Tol...