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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Rescue at Rigel

DOS1983 Epyx
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The Civil War

DOS1987 Avalon Hill
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Arcade Pool

DOS1994 Team 17
Arcade Pool (1994) is like playing a game of billiards in your best friend’s basement—if your best friend happened to be a DOS machine with a serious competitive streak. It’s shockingly addictive, with physics th...
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Cyrus

DOS1985
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Liverpool: the Computer Game

DOS1992 Arc Developments
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Redhook's Revenge

DOS1993 ImagiSoft
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Super Bomber Blast Beta

DOS1997remake
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Tracon 2

DOS1990 Wesson International
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Sensible Golf

DOS1994 Sensible Software
Sensible Golf is a golf video game developed by Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was released in 1994 for Amiga and MS-DOS.Unlike traditional golf simulations of its time, "Sensible Golf" fea...
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Pinball Dreams 2

DOS1994protected 21st Century Entertainment
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Autobots

DOS1989
Before Michael Bay got his hands on the franchise, Autobots (1989, DOS) offered a more... subtle approach to transforming robot mayhem. Well, not subtle exactly — more like confusing. You drive around a blocky city, fight va...
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Dragonfly

DOS1986
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Knight Exchange

DOS1988 Softdisk Publishing
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Fleet Sweep

DOS1983 Mirror Images Software
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Highway Hunter

DOS1994 Safari Software
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Kingdom of Kroz 2

DOS1990 Apogee Software
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Snack Attack 2

DOS1982 Funtastic
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Backgammon

DOS1984 IBM
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Daffy Duck PI: The Case of the Missing Letters

DOS1991 Riedel Software Productions
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Day of the Pharaoh

DOS1989 Chip
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The computer edition of Scrabble

DOS1989 Leisure Genius
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Amazing Maze

DOS1983
Don’t be fooled by the name—Amazing Maze is more of a slightly-better-than-average maze. But hey, in 1983, navigating a screen full of walls and hoping you guessed right was enough to set hearts racing. It’s just...
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Pac Gal

DOS1982
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Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation

DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations
Arnhem is the kind of wargame where you spend more time reading hex maps than shooting anything. It’s all about recreating Operation Market Garden — you know, that WWII battle where everything went spectacularly sidewa...
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Boxer Rebellion

DOS1982
Before realistic fighting games, there was Boxer Rebellion—a 1982 title so primitive, it makes Pong look flashy. It’s boxing with fewer rules and more pixels per punch. The controls are stiffer than a week-old baguette...
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O-Pong

DOS1996
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Rescue Rover 2

DOS1991protected id software
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Firezone

DOS1988 Arcadia Systems