The most popular text-based games
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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Quattro Pro v4
DOS19913.8/5 Borland Software Corporation
Lawn Mower
DOS19873.8/5
Adventure in Serenia
DOS19823.6/5 Sierra On-Line
Dream Zone
DOS19884.2/5 Naughty Dog
Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0
DOS19834/5 Borland Software Corporation
Wall Street Raider
DOS19864.4/5
Amnesia
DOS19864/5 Cognetics corporation
A-Maze
DOS19894.2/5 New Era Software
Zork III: The Dungeon Master
DOS19844/5 Infocom
Borland Eureka: the Solver
DOS19873.9/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Eureka: the Solver is an abandoned text-based application developed by Borland Software Corporation and released in 1987 for DOS. The product is designed to solve complex problems, generate tables and plots, and perform what-if analysis. The user writes an equation, sets options, and instructs the software to solve the problem. The pro...
Dungeon Master's Assistant Vol 1
DOS1988protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
B-1 Nuclear Bomber
DOS19813.6/5 Avalon Hill
Suspended
DOS19833.9/5 Infocom
FreeDOS Shell
DOS2002freeware3.6/5
Rambo First Blood Part 2
DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
PKzip
DOS1989protected4/5 PKware
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
DOS19894/5 Infocom
Business Simulator
DOS19873.9/5 Reality Development
Business Simulator is an abandoned business simulation game developed and released by Reality Development in 1987 for DOS only. Business Simulator is a text-based management simulation designed by an university professor.
Super ZZT
DOS19923.3/5 Epic MegaGames
Math Cad 2.5
DOS19894.1/5
ZZT
DOS1991freeware4.2/5 Epic MegaGames
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS19874/5 Angelsoft
Cutthroats
DOS19843.4/5 Infocom
Championship Manager
DOS19924.1/5 Domark Software
Championship Manager is the first chapter in one of the most successful football manager games series. The first Championship Manager was a text-based British football/soccer simulation and included teams from four English divisions, European cups and domestic cups as well. Championship Manager was designed by Paul and Oliver Collyer and ...
Questprobe featuring The Hulk
DOS19843.9/5 Adventure International
Einstein Writer 7
DOS19853.5/5
Ascii Sector
WindowsLinuxDOS2007freeware3.9/5
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
DOS19894/5 Infocom
Armchair Quarterback
DOS19854.1/5
Sorcerer
DOS19844.1/5 Infocom