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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NHL 96

DOS1995 Electronic Arts

NHL Hockey

DOS1993 Electronic Arts

Night Mission Pinball

DOS1982 subLOGIC

No Greater Glory

DOSMac OS1991protected

Nobunaga's Ambition

DOS1988 KOEI

Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS1989 KOEI

Nobunaga's Ambition 6

DOS1994 KOEI

North and South

DOS1990 Infogrames

Nuclear War

DOS1989 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 car...

Number Munchers

DOS1990 MECC

O-Pong

DOS1996

Ogre

DOS1986 Origin Systems

Omega

DOS1989 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.

Omega

DOSLinux1988freeware

Operation Europe: Path to Victory 1939-45

DOS1994 KOEI

Operation Harrier

DOS1990 Creative Materials

Operation Market Garden

DOS1985protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Operation: Inner Space

Windows 3.x1994protecteddemo Software Dynamics

Othello

DOS1986

Oubliette

DOS1983

Outbound

Windows XP/98/952001freeware

Over the Reich

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1996 Big Time Software

OverKill

DOS1992freeware Tech-Noir

Oxyd

DOS1992 Dongleware

Pac Gal

DOS1982

Pac PC

DOS1995freewareremake

Pac-girl

DOS1982 Magicom Multimedia

Pac-Man

DOS1983 Namco

Pac-Man is a classic arcade game created by Namco and first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. It was later released in North America by Midway Games. The game was designed by Toru Iwatani and has become one of the most famous and...