The most popular 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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Monday Night Football
DOS19894.1/5 Park Place Productions
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye
Windows 3.xMac OS19903/5 Activision
Tangled Tales
DOS19893.5/5 Origin Systems
Postman Pat 3: To the Rescue
DOS19923.5/5 Alternative Software
Nanotank
Windows 3.x19933.7/5
Wembley Rugby League
DOS19963/5 Denton Designs
Shawl
DOS19863.4/5 AcademySoft
Stratego
DOS19903.8/5 Accolade
Heavy Barrel
DOS19893.4/5 Data East
Frontline
DOS19903.5/5 Cases Computer Simulations
Blitz Draughts
DOS19923.7/5 PC Solutions
Swap
DOS19923.5/5 Microids
Star Trek Combat Arena
DOS19893.7/5
Subtrade: Return to Irata
DOS19933.9/5 Century Interactive
Subtrade: Return to Irata is an abandoned science fiction business simulation game developed by Century Interactive and published by Boeder Software in 1993 for Amiga and later ported to DOS. Subtrade is an updated multiplayer clone of the classic M.U.L.E., set underwater on an oceanic world.
Sorcerer Lord
DOS19874/5 Personal Software Services
Accordion
DOS19903/5 Softdisk Publishing
Knight Exchange
DOS19883.2/5 Softdisk Publishing
Llamatron 2112
DOS19923.8/5 Llamasoft
Joyous Rebel
DOS1996freeware4.1/5
La Grande Armee
DOS19913.9/5 SDJ Enterprises
Caves of Thor
DOS19893.7/5 Apogee Software
Epidemic!
DOS1983protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Soviet
DOS19904.1/5 Opera Soft
If It Moves, Shoot It!
DOS19893.3/5 Emerald Software
WitchavenRL
WindowsLinux20133.8/5
Backgammon
DOS19862.7/5
Super Battleship
DOS19883.3/5
Navy Seal
DOS19894/5 Cosmi Corporation
Sky Shark
DOS19893.7/5 Toaplan
Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World
DOS19893.8/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group