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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Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Rescue at Rigel

DOS1983 Epyx

Rescue Rover

DOS1991protected id software

Rescue Rover 2

DOS1991protected id software

Return to Kroz

DOS1990freeware Apogee Software

Reunion

DOS1994 Dinamic Multimedia

Rings of Medusa

DOS1990 Starbyte Software

Rings of Medusa is a strategy / RPG developed by the German studio Starbyte Software. It was released in 1989 for various platforms including the Commodore 64, Amiga, and MS-DOS. In Rings of Medusa, players assume the role of a hero tasked with defeating the evil sorceress Medusa who has taken control of the city of Olympus. The game world is ...

Risk

Windows 3.x1991 Azeroth

Risk: the World Conquest Game

DOS1989 Mastertronic

Roadwar 2000

DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Roadwar Europa

DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Robbo

DOS1993freeware xLand Games

Robot Odissey

DOS1985 The Learning Company

Robot Rascals

DOS1987 Ozark Softscape

Robotron 2084

DOS1983 Williams Entertainment

Rock 'n Roll

DOS1989 Rainbow Arts

Rockford: The Arcade Game

DOS1987protected Arcadia Systems

Rodent's Revenge

Windows 3.x1991 Microsoft

Rogue

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1984 Artificial Intelligence Design

Rogue is one of the first RPGs in the history of video gaming. It's a text-based dungeon crawler in which you have to fight your way in the dungeon to recover the Amulet of Yendor. Rogue became popular around 1980 on mainframes and later ported to various platforms, including DOS in 1984. Rogue is simply the father of all the roguelike games that c...

Rollo and the Brush Brothers

DOS1983 Windmill Software

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

DOS1989 KOEI

Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2

DOS1990 KOEI

Romance of the Three Kingdoms II is a turn-based strategy game developed and published by Koei. It was released in 1989 for various platforms, including the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), MS-DOS.In Romance of the Three Kingdoms II, players take on the role of a ruler during this period, and their objective is to unify China under their rule. ...