The top-down view is one of the most enduring and recognizable perspectives in the history of computer and console games.
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The top-down view is one of the most enduring and recognizable perspectives in the history of computer and console games.
Battle Isle 2, also known as Battle Isle 2200 in America, is a top-down turn based strategy game released in 1994. It was developed by Blue Byte Software, who also published the game in Europe.
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Speedball is a video game created by The Bitmap Brothers based on a violent futuristic sport and probably inspired by the 1975 sci-fi movie Rollerball. Initially developed for Amig...
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Supercars International is the third game in the Super Cars series and is an arcade racing game developed by Magnetic Fields. It was published by Hit Squad in 1996 for DOS. At it...
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Soldier Blade is a vertical shoot 'em up developed by Hudson Soft and published in 1992 for PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16. This title represents one of the pinnacles of the genre on NEC'...
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Dino Dini's Goal (also known as Goal!) is a soccer game created by the famous British game designer and programmer Dino Dini. Dini was also the author of Kick Off and Kick Off 2.
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Commando is a 2D action shooter arcade created by Capcom in 1985. It was ported first to the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum. After its release, it was ported to multiple platforms, incl...
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Dogs of War is a shooter created by Vectordean for the Atari ST and then ported to Amiga. It was published in 1989 by Elite. The game, for one or two players, is heavily inspired b...
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Warlords III: Reign of Heroes is the third chapter of the saga of fantasy turn-based strategy games created by Strategic Studies Group. The game was released in 1997, exclusively for Windows.
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Metal Gear is a stealth action-adventure designed by Hideo Kojima and originally released in 1987 by Konami for the MSX2. It was later ported to the NES, Commodore 64, and DOS. Not...
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SimCity Enhanced CD-ROM, also known as SimCity Enhanced Cinematic Multimedia, is a remake of SimCity created by Maxis and released by Maxis and Interplay in 1993 for PC CD-ROM and Macintosh.
Year: 1993 Genre: Simulation
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Battle Isle '93 - The Moon of Chromos is an expansion of the sci-fi wargame created by Blue Byte for Amiga and MS-DOS. The first Battle Isle was released in 1991, and it was a hu...
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Iron Lord is a strategy-action-adventure game created by Ubi Soft, initially for the Atari ST. Later it was ported to Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Amiga, Acorn 32-bit, and other platforms.
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Alien Breed: Tower Assault is the third entry into the Alien Breed sci-fi shooter series and was developed and published by Team17 in 1994. It was released for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, and DOS.
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Kick Off is a football (soccer) game designed by Dino Dini and developed by Anco Software in 1989 for the Amiga, Commodore 64, and other platforms. This football game was the first to use a top-down view of the field.
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