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.
SimLife: The Genetic Playground is a simulation game developed and published by Maxis in 1992. The game is part of the long list of "Sim" games created by Maxis, like SimAnt and ...
Year: 1992 Genre: Simulation
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Frogger is an arcade created by Konami and one of the most popular video games ever created. It was released for the first time in 1981, and it has been ported to almost all platforms since then.
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Blastar is a space shoot-em-up developed by Core Design exclusively for the Amiga and released in 1993. The game features impressive graphics, with more than 3MB of images and animated backgrounds.
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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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Summer Carnival '92: Recca is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em-up for the NES, created by KID Corp and released in 1992. Have you ever wondered what the best sci-fi vertical scrollin...
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Jumping Jack'son is a top-down puzzle game that was released by Infogrames in 1990. It was mostly puzzle-based, with a hint of action to spice things up. The game sparked an exciti...
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Empire Deluxe is a turn-based strategy game released by New World Computing in 1993 for PC. The story of this game begins in 1977 when a first version of the game (without graphics, of course) was created by Walter Bright.
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Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat is an arcade racing game that was developed and published by Leland Corporation in 1991. It was later ported to home platforms, including Amiga, NES, Commodore 64.
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Phantasie is a role-playing game designed by Winston Douglas Wood and published by Strategic Simulations Inc. It was released initially in 1985 for Apple II and other 8-bit platforms.
Year: 1987 Genre: Role Playing
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Wayne Gretzky Hockey is an ice hockey simulation created by Bethesda Softworks for Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS and released in 1988. There were also Macintosh and NES versions, while the C-64/128 version was never completed.
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Aleste, released outside Japan as "Power Strike", is a popular shoot-em-up developed by Compile. It was released initially for the SEGA Master System in 1988. Later, it was published for MSX2.
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ATR: All Terrain Racing is an isometric racing game created by Team17 and published in 1995 for the Amiga and Amiga CD32. The game is similar to Super Cars and Micro Machines with a top-down view and small cars.
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Questron 2 is the sequel to Questron, a fantasy RPG created by Strategic Simulations Inc in 1984 for the Commodore 64, Apple II, and Atari 8-bit. Four years later, the sequel was ...
Year: 1988 Genre: Role Playing
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Smash T.V. is an arcade game created by Eugene Jarvis and Mark Turmell for Williams Electronics and released in 1990. It was later ported to several platforms, including Genesis, A...
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