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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DOS1992 Linel

Traffic department 2192

DOS1994freeware P Squared

Tristan Pinball

DOS1991 Littlewing

Trivial Pursuit

DOS1989

Trivial Pursuit is a popular trivia board game that was adapted into a computer game for various platforms, including DOS. In the game, players answer trivia questions from various categories in order to collect pie pieces th...

Trivial Pursuit Deluxe

DOS1992 Oxford Digital Enterprises

Trog

DOS1990 Midway Manufacturing Company

Tubular Worlds

DOS1994

Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan

DOS1990 New World Computing

Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan is a computer RPG released in 1990 for MS-DOS and PC-98 platforms. It is based on the tabletop role-playing game Tunnels & Trolls created by Ken St. Andre, which was a lighter and more...

Turbo Gomoku

DOS1985

TV Sports: Basketball

DOS1990freeware Cinemaware

Tyrian 2000

DOS1999freeware Eclipse Software

Tyrian 2000 is an old DOS science fiction classic shoot'em up, developed by Eclipse Software and designed by Alexander Brandon, Jason Emery, Daniel Cook. Tyrian 2000 is one of the most popular shoot'em ups ever published for ...

Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness

DOS1981 Origin Systems

Before Ultima 1 came along, role-playing games on PC were about as sophisticated as a pocket calculator. Then Richard Garriott threw players into a digital world full of space travel, dungeons, and dragons—yes, all at once. ...

Ultima 2: Revenge of the Enchantress

DOS1983 Origin Systems

Ultima 2 asks the pressing question: what if you mixed time travel with fantasy and a truly mean sorceress named Minax? The answer is chaos. You’ll bounce between eras—from prehistoric landscapes to futuristic space co...

Ultima 3: Exodus

DOSMac OS1985 Origin Systems

By Ultima 3, the series had discovered the magic of party-based adventuring. No longer a lonely trek, now you command a ragtag group of heroes who bicker only in your imagination. Exodus, the mysterious villain, is less a person a...

Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar

DOS1985freeware Origin Systems

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar is one of the most influential and innovative role-playing games (RPGs) in video game history. Released in 1985 by Richard Garriott under the Origin Systems banner, it is the fourth installment of th...

Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny

DOS1988 Origin Systems

Ultima 5 takes a darker turn. Lord British is missing, and his regent, Lord Blackthorn, has turned Britannia into a police state where virtues are enforced at sword-point. You know things are bad when honesty is compulsory and pun...

Ultima 6: The False Prophet

DOS1990protected Origin Systems

In Ultima 6, you finally meet the Gargoyles, who aren’t the snarling monsters everyone assumed—they’re just misunderstood neighbors with a different perspective. Cue moral dilemmas and cross-cultural negotiations...

Ultima 7 Part 1: The Black Gate

DOS1992 Origin Systems

Ultima 7 is often hailed as the crown jewel of the series, and with good reason. It throws you into an open world that feels startlingly alive, even decades later. Townsfolk go about their daily routines, you can bake bread if you...

Ultima 7 Part 2: Serpent Isle

DOS1993 Origin Systems

As sequels go, Serpent Isle is less “more of the same” and more “everything is different, good luck.” Shipwrecked on a strange new land, you’ll deal with political intrigue, bizarre magical phenomena,...

Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams

DOS1991 Origin Systems

Then there’s Martian Dreams, the Ultima game where you travel to Mars in the 19th century with none other than Sigmund Freud and Nikola Tesla. Yes, it’s as delightfully bizarre as it sounds. Instead of Britannia, you&r...

Uncharted Waters

DOS1990 KOEI

Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons

DOS1995 KOEI

Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons is an abandoned simulation game, sequel of Uncharted Waters, developed and released by KOEI in 1995. The Uncharted Waters series is set in the Age of Discovery and gives the player the freedom to s...

Uncover It

DOS1994NSFW

Unnatural Selection

DOS1993 Maxis

Unnecessary Roughness

DOS1993 Accolade

UnReal World v. 3.20

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1992freeware

Uridium

DOS1988 Graftgold

Uridium is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was originally developed by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986 for various home computer platforms (including MS-DOS). In Uridium, players control a ...