Abandonware DOS title

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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Raptor: Call of the Shadows

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1994protecteddemo Cygnus Studios
Back when PC shoot-’em-ups were still proving they could match arcades, Raptor: Call of the Shadows landed like a missile. Fast, crunchy, and blessed with explosions that fee...
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Reaping The Dungeon

DOS1993 Frontline Software
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Redhook's Revenge

DOS1993 ImagiSoft
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Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Rescue at Rigel

DOS1983 Epyx
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Rescue Rover

DOS1991protected id software
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Rescue Rover 2

DOS1991protected id software
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Return to Kroz

DOS1990freeware Apogee Software
Kroz returns, and with it, your CRT monitor’s worst nightmare: ASCII graphics! Return to Kroz takes you back to a time when @ meant “you,” and everything else was...
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Reunion

DOS1994 Dinamic Multimedia
In Reunion, you return to a solar system that’s moved on without you—like showing up to your own birthday party two centuries late. Your mission? Rebuild civilization, ...
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Rings of Medusa

DOS1990 Starbyte Software
Rings of Medusa is a strategy / RPG developed by the German studio Starbyte Software. It was released in 1989 for various platforms including the Commodore 64, Amiga, and MS-DOS.&n...
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Risk

Windows 3.x1991 Azeroth
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Risk: the World Conquest Game

DOS1989 Mastertronic
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Roadwar 2000

DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Roadwar Europa

DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Robbo

DOS1993freeware xLand Games
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Robot Odissey

DOS1985 The Learning Company
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Robot Rascals

DOS1987 Ozark Softscape
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Robotron 2084

DOS1983 Williams Entertainment
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Rock 'n Roll

DOS1989 Rainbow Arts
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Rockford: The Arcade Game

DOS1987protected Arcadia Systems
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Rodent's Revenge

Windows 3.x1991 Microsoft
Rodent's Revenge is a puzzle video game originally released in 1991 as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows. Developed by Christopher Lee Fraley, the game is simple...
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Rogue

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1984 Artificial Intelligence Design
Rogue is one of the first RPGs in the history of video gaming. It's a text-based dungeon crawler in which you have to fight your way in the dungeon to recover the Amulet of Yendor....
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Rollo and the Brush Brothers

DOS1983 Windmill Software
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2

DOS1990 KOEI
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II is a turn-based strategy game developed and published by Koei. It was released in 1989 for various platforms, including the Nintendo Entertainment ...
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Rotox

DOS1991 Creative Materials
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Royal Flush Pinball

DOS1994 Amtex
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Sarakon

DOS1991 Starbyte Software