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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DOS1983
Outbound
Windows XP/98/952001freeware
Over the Reich
Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1996 Big Time Software
OverKill
DOS1992freeware Tech-Noir
Oxyd
DOS1992 Dongleware
Pac Gal
DOS1982
Pac PC
DOS1995freewareremake
Pac-girl
DOS1982 Magicom Multimedia
Pac-Man
DOS1983 Namco
Pac-Man is a classic arcade game created by Namco and first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. It was later released in North America by Midway Games. The game was designed by Toru Iwatani and has become one of the most famous and influential video games of all time. The main goal of Pac-Man is to navigate a maze, eating all the pac-dots (smal...
Pacific General
Windows XP/98/951997protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Pack-Man
DOS1983remake Magicom Multimedia
Pango
DOS1983remake
Panzer Battles
DOS1990 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Panzer General
DOS1994protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Panger General is a turn based strategy wargame developed by SSI set in World War 2. The player can choose Axis or Allies and fight against the AI or another human player in more than 30 scenarios on a classic hex based map.
Panzer General 2
Windows XP/98/951997protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Patton vs. Rommel
DOS1987 Electronic Arts
PC-Man
DOS1982remake Orion Software
PC-Man is an abandoned top-down Pac-Man clone in every regard: from the shape of the protagonist, to the cute ghosts. PC-Man was designed by Greg Kuperberg, developed by Orion Software and released in 1982 for DOS. As PC-Man, you have to move through a one screen maze to collect dots (pills? wafers?) and avoid being touched by one of the usual Pac-...
People's General
Windows XP/98/951998protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Phantasie 1
DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Phantasie 3: The Wrath of Nikademus
DOS1987 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
PHM Pegasus
DOS1987 LucasArts
Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw
DOS1989 Oxford Mobius
Pinball Dreams
DOS1993protected Digital Illusions
Pinball Dreams 2
DOS1994protected 21st Century Entertainment
Pinball Fantasies
DOS1994 Digital Illusions
Pinball Illusions
DOS1995 Digital Illusions
Pinball Magic
DOS1990 Loriciels
Pinball World
DOS1995 Spidersoft Limited
Pipe Dream
DOSWindows 3.x1989 The Assembly Line
Pipe Mania (also known as Pipe Dream is a tile-matching (sort of) puzzle game about flowing liquids developed by The Assembly Line in 1989. You must build a path made of pipe pieces to let a green liquid (sewer goo?) flow. It's simple, original and addicting, that's why Pipe Mania was cloned a number of times.
Pirates! Gold
DOSWindows 3.xMac OS1993protectedremakedemo MicroProse Software
Pirates! Gold is an open world game designed by Paul Murphy, developed and released by MicroProse Software in 1993 for DOS, Windows 3.x, Mac and also Sega Genesis and Amiga CD32. Pirates! Gold is a remake of the game Pirates, created by Sid Meier in 1987. Pirates! Gold gameplay is a unique mix of action, strategy, pirate life simulation, ...