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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Ms. Pac-Man

DOS1984 Atarisoft

Ms. Pac-Man is a classic arcade game released by Midway in 1982 (1984 for DOS) as a follow-up to the original Pac-Man (1980), developed by Namco. While its core gameplay is similar - navigating a maze, eating dots, and avoiding ghosts - there are key differences. Ms. Pac-Man features four distinct maze designs, moving bonus fruits, and mo...

Murder on the Zinderneuf

DOS1984 Free Fall Associates

Mychess

DOS1984 The Software Toolworks

Mystical

DOS1990protected Infogrames

Nanotank

Windows 3.x1993

Navy Seal

DOS1989 Cosmi Corporation

Nebulus

DOS1988 Hewson Consultants

Nebulus, also known as Tower Toppler in some regions, is a classic video game released in the 1980s. It was developed by John M. Phillips and published by Hewson Consultants. The game was initially released for various home computer systems, including the Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, and others. It later saw ports to different platforms. Neb...

Nectaris

DOS1995 Hudson soft

NetStorm: Islands at War

Windows XP/98/951997

NFL Football

DOS1992 Distinctive Software

NFL Pro League Football

DOS1989 Micro Sports

NHL 96

DOS1995 Electronic Arts

NHL Hockey

DOS1993 Electronic Arts

Night Mission Pinball

DOS1982 subLOGIC

No Greater Glory

DOSMac OS1991protected

Nobunaga's Ambition

DOS1988 KOEI

Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS1989 KOEI

Nobunaga's Ambition 6

DOS1994 KOEI

North and South

DOS1990 Infogrames

Nuclear War

DOS1989 New World Computing

Nuclear War is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by Eric Hyman and Jon Van Caneghem. Nuclear War was developed and released by New World Computing in 1989 for Amiga and, later, for DOS, and it's loosely based on a card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...