Text-based games: ASCII, etc. sorted by title, from Z to A
A few genres traditionally linked to the beautiful world of ascii characters still survives: roguelikes (nethack, angband, etc.) and interactive fiction, for example.
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Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
DOS19894/5 Infocom
Armchair Quarterback
DOS19854.1/5
Arj
DOS19904.3/5
ARJ is a file compression utility and file format created by Robert K. Jung. The name "ARJ" stands for "Archived by Robert Jung." It was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a compression tool for MS-DOS and other systems. ARJ offered high compression ratios and various features, such as archive encryption and error recovery.
Arachne WWW
DOS1996freeware4.2/5
Arachne is a graphical web browser for DOS. Arachne was developed by Michal Polák and released in the early 1990s as a text-mode web browser with limited graphical capabilities. Arachne allowed DOS users to browse the World Wide Web in a graphical, though quite basic, manner. It supported features such as displaying images, handling lin...
Angband
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1992freeware4/5
Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM) v1.1
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1996freeware3.9/5
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021
DOS1987freeware3.9/5 Thinking Machine Associates
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021 is one of the first 4x turn-based strategy games, ASCII based. Anacreon is set in space, as most 4x sci-fi games are, and was published by Thinking Machines Associates and designed by George Moromisato who later re-released the game as freeware.
Amulet of Yendor
DOS19853.6/5 Keypunch Software
Amnesia
DOS19864/5 Cognetics corporation
Amazon
DOS19843.7/5 Telarium
AlphaMan
DOS19953.6/5
Alice: The Personal Pascal
DOS19854.3/5
Alice in Wonderland
DOS19893.3/5
Air Trax
DOS19833.4/5
Air Traffic Controller
DOS19854.2/5 Cascoly Software
African Adventure
DOS1997remake3.6/5
Adventure in Serenia
DOS19823.6/5 Sierra On-Line
Adventure Game Studio (AGS)
WindowsLinuxMac1997freeware3.9/5
Adventure Game Studio (AGS) is a software development tool that enables users to create point-and-click adventure games. It was originally created by Chris Jones and has been used by game developers to produce a variety of 2D adventure games. AGS provides a scripting language, a visual editor, and various other tools to simplify the game developmen...
Acquire
DOS19893.9/5 IBM
Acheton
DOS19873.7/5
Ace 2.02
DOS20012.7/5
A-Maze
DOS19894.2/5 New Era Software
A Night with Troi
DOS1991NSFW4/5
A Mind Forever Voyaging
DOSMac19854.1/5 Infocom
A Dudley Dilemma
DOS19883.3/5
2112
DOS19943/5
1893: A World's Fair Mystery
Windows XP/98/95Mac20033.4/5