The most popular top down games
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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Spy Hunter
DOS19843.7/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
Frogger Jr.
DOS19843.6/5
Seek and Destroy
DOS19964.2/5 Safari Software
Seek and Destroy was a shoot'em up published by the well known Epic Megagames in 1996 that tried to change the usual shoot'em up gameplay for the better. Instead of wave after wave of enemies to shoot down, you are given short missions to accomplish with your helicopter or your tank (yes, you can choose). At first, missions could seem a bit repetit...
D-Zone
DOS19923.9/5
Tubular Worlds
DOS19943.5/5
Final Frontier
DOS19892.8/5 Bubble Bus Software
Settlers of Catan
DOS19984.1/5
Clue Master Detective
DOS19894.2/5 Dalali Software
Clue Master Detective is an abandoned strategy game developed by Dalali Software and released by Leisure Genius in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Clue Master Detective is based on the well known board game Clue (also known as Cluedo). Clue can be played in single player, but the best gaming experience come from the multi-player mode.
Wild West World
DOS19914.1/5 Software 2000
Color Buster
DOS19923.6/5
Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation
DOS19883.1/5 Cases Computer Simulations
Antix
DOS1985remake4.3/5
Kingdom of Kroz 2
DOS19903.2/5 Apogee Software
7 colors
DOS19913.5/5 Gamos
Qix
DOS19894.1/5 Taito
Knights of Legend
DOS19894.2/5 Origin Systems
Caverns of Kroz
DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software
Ogre
DOS19864.2/5 Origin Systems
Super ZZT
DOS19923.3/5 Epic MegaGames
Windwalker (Moebius 2)
DOS19892.8/5 Origin Systems
Ante-Up at The Friday Night Poker Club
DOS19903.9/5
Highway Fighter
DOS19954/5 Safari Software
Prophecy: the Fall of Trinadon
DOS19893.4/5 Activision
Disciples of Steel
DOS19943.9/5
Dragonfly
DOS19863.2/5
Ms Pac PC
DOS1995remake4.3/5 Magicom Multimedia
Highway Hunter
DOS19943.2/5 Safari Software
Stratego
DOS19903.8/5 Accolade
Uridium
DOS19883.9/5 Graftgold
Uridium is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was originally developed by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986 for various home computer platforms (including MS-DOS). In Uridium, players control a spaceship known as the Manta, and the objective is to destroy a series of enemy spacecraft, as well as ground-based inst...
Sargon V: World Class Chess
DOS19913.8/5 Activision