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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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, with gameplay revolving around a small mouse cha...

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. Rogue became popular around 1980 on mainframes an...

Rollo and the Brush Brothers

DOS1983 Windmill Software

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

DOS1989 KOEI

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 System (NES), MS-DOS.In Romance of the Three Kingd...

Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3: Dragon of Destiny

DOS1993 KOEI

Rotox

DOS1991 Creative Materials

Royal Flush Pinball

DOS1994 Amtex

Russian Front 2: The Kursk Campaign

DOS1990

Sarakon

DOS1991 Starbyte Software

Sarge

DOS1989

Sargon V: World Class Chess

DOS1991 Activision

Scavengers of the Mutant World

DOS1988 Interstel Corporation

Scrabble

DOS1989

Scrabble

DOS1992 U.S. Gold

Search and Destroy

DOS1988 Broderbund

Seek and Destroy

DOS1996 Safari Software

Seek and Destroy was a shoot'em up published by the well known Epic Megagames in 1996 that tried to change the usual shoot'em up gameplay for the better. Instead of wave after wave of enemies to shoot down, you are given short mis...

Sensible Golf

DOS1994 Sensible Software

Sensible Golf is a golf video game developed by Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was released in 1994 for Amiga and MS-DOS.Unlike traditional golf simulations of its time, "Sensible Golf" fea...

Sensible Soccer

DOS1992 Sensible Software

Sensible World of Soccer 96/97

DOS1996protected Sensible Software

Settlers of Catan

DOS1998

Sexy Droids

DOS1992NSFW Eleven Software

Shamus

DOS1984 Synapse Software

Shamus is a maze action game developed by William Mataga and published by Synapse Software in 1982. The game became popular on various home computer platforms of the early 1980s. In Shamus, players control a detective navigating t...

Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye

Windows 3.xMac OS1990 Activision

Shard of Spring

DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Shawl

DOS1986 AcademySoft

Sherlock: The Game of Logic

DOS1991protected Everett Kaser Software

Sid Meier's CivNet

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1995 MicroProse Software

CivNet is a multiplayer adaptation of the original Sid Meier's Civilization game, released in 1995. It was developed and published by MicroProse for MS-DOS and Windows. This version of Civilization brought networked multiplayer ga...