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
Silly Master Blaster
DOS1985
Command Adventures: Starship
DOS1995 Future Vision
Alex Higgins World Snooker
DOS1986 Lindensoft
Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road
DOS1988 SNK Corporation
Number Munchers
DOS1990 MECC
Dawn Raider
DOS1990 Softstar Entertainment
Dungeons of Kairn
DOS1989
ICON: Quest for the Ring
DOS1984 Macrocom
Scrabble
DOS1989
Super Pac-Man
DOS1982 Namco
Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign
DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations
When Two Worlds War
DOS1993 Impressions Games
Computer Diplomacy
DOS1984 Avalon Hill
Color Buster
DOS1992
Night Mission Pinball
DOS1982 subLOGIC
World tour golf
DOS1985 Electronic Arts
8088 Othello
DOS1985
Meteors
DOS1989 Apogee Software
7 colors
DOS1991 Gamos
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.
Capitalism Plus
DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected Enlight Software
Kingdoms of Germany
DOS1994 Realism Entertainment
Dungeon Explorer
DOS1990
Gengis Khan
DOS1989 KOEI
Moraff's Revenge
DOS1988 Moraffware
Royal Flush Pinball
DOS1994 Amtex
BitStorm
DOS1999
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...