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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Bicycle Bridge

DOS19924.2/5

Billy The Kid

DOS19903.8/5 Level 9 Computing

Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance

Windows XP/98/9519964.2/5 Synergistic Software

BitStorm

DOS19993.3/5

Black Moon Chronicles

DOS1999protected4.2/5 Cryo Interactive Entertainment

Blades of Exile

Windows 3.xMacWindows XP/98/951997freeware4.1/5 Spiderweb Software

Blasteroids

DOS19893.8/5 Atari

Blitz Draughts

DOS19923.7/5 PC Solutions

Blitzkrieg: Battle at the Ardennes

DOS19903.5/5 Command Simulations

Block O Mania

DOS19894.1/5 Crystal Shard

Blood & Magic

DOS19963.9/5 Tachyon Studios

Bloodstone: an Epic Dwarven Tale

DOS19934/5 Mindcraft Software

Blue Angel 69

DOS1989NSFW3.6/5

Blues Brothers RPG

Windows XP/98/952004freeware3.9/5

Bobby Fisher teaches chess

DOS19944/5 Mission Studios

Bolo Ball

DOS19923.3/5 Soleau Software

Bomberman

DOS19924.1/5 Hudson soft

Bombuzal

DOS19893.5/5 Image Works

Boston Bomb Club

DOS19913.9/5 Silmarils

Boxer Rebellion

DOS19823.1/5

Bravo Romeo Delta

DOS19934/5

Bridge 7.0

DOS19923.3/5 Artworx Software

Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday

DOS1990protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed

DOS1992protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is a CRPG developed by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. and released in 1992 for DOS only. Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is the sequel to Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday and it's based on a campaign setting created by TSR in the late 80s. The game uses the Gold Box engine, common to much of the RPGs developed by SSI.