Abandonware DOS title

The best top down games

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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Hannibal

DOS1993 Starbyte Software
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Command Adventures: Starship

DOS1995 Future Vision
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Alex Higgins World Snooker

DOS1986 Lindensoft
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Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road

DOS1988 SNK Corporation
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Number Munchers

DOS1990 MECC
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Dawn Raider

DOS1990 Softstar Entertainment
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ICON: Quest for the Ring

DOS1984 Macrocom
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Scrabble

DOS1989
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Super Pac-Man

DOS1982 Namco
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Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign

DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations
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When Two Worlds War

DOS1993 Impressions Games
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Computer Diplomacy

DOS1984 Avalon Hill
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Color Buster

DOS1992
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Night Mission Pinball

DOS1982 subLOGIC
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World tour golf

DOS1985 Electronic Arts
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8088 Othello

DOS1985
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Meteors

DOS1989 Apogee Software
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7 colors

DOS1991 Gamos
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Battle Master

DOS1991 Personal Software Services
Battle Master is a fantasy themed abandoned action-strategy game hybrid (with real-time tactics elements) developed by Personal Software Services. Battle Master was released by Mirrorsoft in 1991 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST and Genesis.
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Capitalism Plus

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected Enlight Software
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Kingdoms of Germany

DOS1994 Realism Entertainment
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Gengis Khan

DOS1989 KOEI
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Moraff's Revenge

DOS1988 Moraffware
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Royal Flush Pinball

DOS1994 Amtex
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BitStorm

DOS1999
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Bolo Ball

DOS1992 Soleau Software
Bolo Ball is a DOS game from the mid-1990s. It features a physics-based gameplay where the objective is to knock opponent balls out of an arena. When you start the game, you find yourself in a 2D arena set against a starry, space-like background. You control a colorful ball, which, despite being a 2D sprite, appears somewhat three-dimensional due t...