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Rectangular grid

Other (objects, etc.) concept

Uses an ordinary grid of 4 sided convex shapes (rectangles, squares, etc.).

2747
games
144
platforms

Alternate names: Square grid, rectgrid

J-Bird (MS-DOS)
J-Bird
DOS 1983
Secret of the Silver Blades (Commodore 64)
Secret of the Silver Blades
C64 1990
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker (Nintendo 3DS)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker
3DS 2015-01-29
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle (Nintendo Switch)
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
SWTC 2017-08-29
Dots (Macintosh OS Classic)
Dots
MAC 1993
RimWorld (Windows)
RimWorld
WIN 2018-10-17
Chess (Mega Drive)
Chess
GEN 1998
Holy Avatar vs. Maidens of the Dead (Windows)
Holy Avatar vs. Maidens of the Dead
WIN 2012-10-11
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising (Game Boy Advance)
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
GBA 2003-06-23
worm (Linux)
worm
LIN 1993
Miasma 2 (Xbox 360)
Miasma 2
X360 2012-05-11
BeeBop Special (Macintosh OS Classic)
BeeBop Special
MAC 1995

The grid need not be parallel to the screen. Isometric, trimetric, and 3D games may also constrain some or all gameplay to a grid.
This can also be used in games that use text mode display. Although one might expect all games on such to be grid based, this is not a necessity any more than a game having to use only a single resolution in other display modes.

Note that some visibly rectangular grids have every other line shifted by 50% producing a hex grid despite visibly still having rectangles, these should be tagged as hex grids instead.

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Games by year

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The first Rectangular grid video game was released on August 25, 1950.

Nintendo, Sega and SSI published most of these games.

Platforms

Linux 589
Windows 217
Mac OS Classic 170
MS-DOS 154
Apple II E 130
BeOS 105
C64 53
BSD 49
Mac OS X 49
TRS-80 48
Amiga 47
OS/2 44
Tandy Coco 40
PS 40
Win3.1 39
ZX Spectrum 39
NES 37
Atari 400/800 33
custom 33
Nintendo DS 31
Atari ST 31
GBA 26
SNES 26
NeXT 25
Amstrad CPC 24
Android 23
PS2 23
GB 20
Commodore PET 20
iOS 19

Most common companies

Nintendo37
Sega24
SSI24
Creative Computing23
Interplay19
The Software Toolworks19
Ubisoft18
Banpresto17
Spiderweb Software16
Gremlin Graphics15
Mindscape13
Microprose12
Konami12
CDS Software12
Hayden Books11