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The most popular interactive fiction games

Interactive fiction games (or text adventures) are adventure games in which the player gives textual commands in order to act within the given story. The story itself is told both using text and static pictures or with no graphics of any kind, just text. The genre's stepping stones are Adventure (developed in 1975) and the Zork series. Infocom, Legend Entertainment and Magnetic scrolls were some of the most popular interactive fiction developers of the 80s.
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Legend of the Sword

DOS19884/5 Silicon Software
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Breakers

DOS19864.1/5 Synapse Software
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Mindshadow

DOSMac OS19853.6/5 Interplay Productions
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Silicon Dreams

DOS19863.6/5 Level 9 Computing
Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game combines elements of science fiction with puzzle-solving and exploration. All three games are text-based, relying on d...
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Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams

DOS19883.8/5 Tom Snyder Productions
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Essex

DOS19853.6/5 Synapse Software
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Earthly delights

DOS19843.6/5 Datamost
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Knight orc

DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Level 9 Computing
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2112

DOS19943/5
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Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom

DOS19893.8/5 Tom Snyder Productions
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Spellbreaker

DOS19853.9/5 Infocom
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Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS19853.9/5 Adventure International
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The Wizard of Oz

DOS19853.9/5 Windham Classics
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Jinxter

DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls
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Amazon

DOS19843.7/5 Telarium
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Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen

DOS19884/5 Tom Snyder Productions
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Brimstone

DOS19853.4/5 Synapse Software
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Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics

DOS19853.5/5 The Software Toolworks
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Acheton

DOS19873.7/5
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African Adventure

DOS1997remake3.6/5
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Seastalker

DOS19844/5 Infocom
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Return to Doom

DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software
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Tass Times in Tonetown

DOS19863.9/5 Interplay Productions
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Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back

DOS19883.8/5 Level 9 Computing
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Lancelot

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
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Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions
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Scapeghost

DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing
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Treasure Island

DOS19853.5/5 Byron Preiss Video Productions
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Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia