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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Royal Flush Pinball

DOS1994 Amtex
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Gengis Khan

DOS1989 KOEI
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Moraff's Revenge

DOS1988 Moraffware
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Air Force Commander

DOS1992 Impressions Games
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Aspetra

DOS1996
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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...
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Bombuzal

DOS1989 Image Works
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D-Day: The Beginning of the End

DOS1994 Impressions Games
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 3

DOS1992 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Evets

DOS1988freeware SAck Enterprizes
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FlixMix

DOS1993 Celeris
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Frontline

DOS1990 Cases Computer Simulations
iron-lord-03

Iron Lord

DOS1990 UBI Soft
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IVAN (Iter Vehemens ad Necem)

DOSWindows 10/11LinuxMac OS2001freeware
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Last Action Hero

DOS1993 Psygnosis
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Legends of Murder: Volume 1 - Stonedale Castle

DOS1989protected Softdisk Publishing
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Moraff's World

DOS1991 Moraffware
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Mystical

DOS1990protected Infogrames
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Postman Pat 3: To the Rescue

DOS1992 Alternative Software
Postman Pat 3 is a retro video game based on the popular British children's television series Postman Pat. Released in 1992 by Alternative Software, it was available for platforms like the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64. In Postman Pat 3, players take on the role of Pat Clifton, the friendly postman from the show. Unlike earlier ga...
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Rally Championships

DOS1994 Flair Software
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Squarez Deluxe!

DOS1993freeware Adept Software
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Super ZZT

DOS1992 Epic MegaGames
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Tangled Tales

DOS1989 Origin Systems
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The Big Three

DOS1989 SDJ Enterprises
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The Civil War

DOS1995 Dagger Interactive Technologies