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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Pac-girl

DOS19823.7/5 Magicom Multimedia

Pac-Man

DOS19834.7/5 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 influential video games of all time. The main goal of Pac-Man is to navigate a maze, eating all the pac-dots (smal...

Pacific General

Windows XP/98/951997protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Pack-Man

DOS1983remake3.5/5 Magicom Multimedia

Pango

DOS1983remake4/5

Panzer Battles

DOS19903.1/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Panzer General

DOS1994protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Panger General is a turn based strategy wargame developed by SSI set in World War 2. The player can choose Axis or Allies and fight against the AI or another human player in more than 30 scenarios on a classic hex based map.

Panzer General 2

Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Patton vs. Rommel

DOS19874/5 Electronic Arts

PC-Man

DOS1982remake4.1/5 Orion Software

PC-Man is an abandoned top-down Pac-Man clone in every regard: from the shape of the protagonist, to the cute ghosts. PC-Man was designed by Greg Kuperberg, developed by Orion Software and released in 1982 for DOS. As PC-Man, you have to move through a one screen maze to collect dots (pills? wafers?) and avoid being touched by one of the usual Pac-...

People's General

Windows XP/98/951998protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Phantasie 1

DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Phantasie 3: The Wrath of Nikademus

DOS19874.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

PHM Pegasus

DOS19873.8/5 LucasArts

Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw

DOS19893/5 Oxford Mobius

Pinball Dreams

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Digital Illusions

Pinball Dreams 2

DOS1994protected3.2/5 21st Century Entertainment

Pinball Fantasies

DOS19944.2/5 Digital Illusions

Pinball Illusions

DOS19953.7/5 Digital Illusions

Pinball Magic

DOS19903.7/5 Loriciels

Pinball World

DOS19953.9/5 Spidersoft Limited

Pipe Dream

DOSWindows 3.x19894.3/5 The Assembly Line

Pipe Mania (also known as Pipe Dream is a tile-matching (sort of) puzzle game about flowing liquids developed by The Assembly Line in 1989. You must build a path made of pipe pieces to let a green liquid (sewer goo?) flow. It's simple, original and addicting, that's why Pipe Mania was cloned a number of times.

Pirates! Gold

DOSWindows 3.xMac OS1993protectedremakedemo4/5 MicroProse Software

Pirates! Gold is an open world game designed by Paul Murphy, developed and released by MicroProse Software in 1993 for DOS, Windows 3.x, Mac and also Sega Genesis and Amiga CD32. Pirates! Gold is a remake of the game Pirates, created by Sid Meier in 1987. Pirates! Gold gameplay is a unique mix of action, strategy, pirate life simulation, ...