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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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J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers

DOS19923.9/5 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...

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 Riders of Rohan

DOS19974.1/5 Papyrus Design Group

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...

Italy 1990

DOS19903.9/5 Tiertex Design Studios

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).

Ishido: The Way of the Stones

DOSMac19903.8/5 Publishing International

Iron Lord

DOS19903.5/5 UBI Soft

Iron Cross

DOS19943.5/5 New World Computing

Into the Eagle's Nest

DOS19873.9/5 Pandora

International Soccer

DOS19943.9/5 Zeppelin Games

Infiltrator 2

DOS19884.1/5 Chris Gray Enterprises

Infiltrator

DOS19874.3/5 Chris Gray Enterprises

Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures

Windows 3.xMac1996demo4.1/5 LucasArts

Indenture

DOS1995remake4.1/5

Incursion

WindowsLinuxMac2007freeware4/5

Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road

DOS19883.6/5 SNK Corporation

Ikari III: The Rescue

DOS19903.5/5 SNK Corporation

If It Moves, Shoot It!

DOS19893.3/5 Emerald Software

ICON: Quest for the Ring

DOS19843.6/5 Macrocom

House of Cards

DOS19893.3/5

Homey D. Clown

DOS19933.5/5 Synergistic Software

Hole in One

DOS19953.8/5 Really Interesting Software Company

Hillsfar

DOS1989protected3.8/5 Westwood Studios

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.