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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NFL Football

DOS19924.1/5 Distinctive Software

NFL Pro League Football

DOS19894.3/5 Micro Sports

NHL 96

DOS19954.2/5 Electronic Arts

NHL Hockey

DOS19934.1/5 Electronic Arts

Night Mission Pinball

DOS19823.5/5 subLOGIC

No Greater Glory

DOSMac1991protected4.1/5

Nobunaga's Ambition

DOS19883.7/5 KOEI

Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS19893.9/5 KOEI

Nobunaga's Ambition 6

DOS19943.9/5 KOEI

North and South

DOS19904.2/5 Infogrames

Nuclear War

DOS19894/5 New World Computing

Nuclear War is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by Eric Hyman and Jon Van Caneghem. Nuclear War was developed and released by New World Computing in 1989 for Amiga and, later, for DOS, and it's loosely based on a card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...

Number Munchers

DOS19903.6/5 MECC

O-Pong

DOS19963.1/5

Ogre

DOS19864.2/5 Origin Systems

Omega

DOSLinux1988freeware3.8/5

Omega

DOS19894/5 Origin Systems

Omega is an abandoned science fiction themed strategy game developed and released by Origin Systems in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Omega is a rare example of a programming game about robots.