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.
MUSHA, also known as Musha Aleste, is a vertically scrolling shooter created by Compile for the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive and released in 1990. The full title is M.U.S.H.A.: Metallic Uniframe Super Hybrid Armor.
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Micro Machines is the first game of the popular series of racing simulations featuring toy cars, developed by Codemasters. It was initially released for the NES in 1991. The Amiga,...
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Captain Fizz Meets The Blaster-Trons, also known as Mission Icarus, is a sci-fi shooter for two players released by Psygnosis in 1988. It was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum.
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Arcade Pool is a pool simulation/arcade game developed by Antitesi and published by Team 17 in 1994 for Amiga and MS-DOS. Ofter considered the best pool game ever created for the A...
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BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception is a sci-fi RPG created by Westwood Associates and published by Infocom. It was released initially for MS-DOS in 1988, then ported to Atari ST, Apple II, Commodore 64, and Amiga (in 1989).
Year: 1988 Genre: Role Playing
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NHL Hockey '94 is an ice hockey game developed and published by EA Sports in 1993 for the Genesis, DOS, Super NES, and Sega CD. EA Sports, a spin-off from Electronic Arts that requ...
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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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Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising is a turn-based strategy game published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. The game developed by Intelligent Systems is the direct seq...
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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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Universal Warrior is a sci-fi shooter created by Zeppelin Games for the Amiga, released in 1993. Later it was ported to MS-DOS. The game designed and programmed by Mark Gornall and...
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Turbo is a top down racing game for 1 or 2 players created by Silent Software exclusively for the Amiga, and released in 1989 by Microillusions..
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Overdrive is a top-down racer developed by Psionic originally for the Amiga and published by Team17 in 1993. Not the best game of this genre, but it features a fantastic soundtrack...
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The Speris Legacy is an action RPG created by Binary Emotions exclusively for the Amiga and published by Team17 in 1996. Designed by Andy Jolly, and created by a team of only 6 people, the title is clearly inspired by the JRPG genre.
Year: 1996 Genre: Role Playing
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