Text-based games: ASCII, etc.

In the past, lots of games used ASCII characters (text) to represent the game world. These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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Executive Suite

DOS19823.9/5 Armonk Corporation

F-Prot

DOS19953.3/5

F-PROT is an antivirus developed by FRISK Software International. The name "F-PROT" stands for "FRISK-PROActive," emphasizing its proactive approach to virus detection and prevention. F-PROT Antivirus is designed to protect computer systems from various forms of malware, including viruses, worms, Trojans, and other malicious software.

Farenheit 451

DOS19843.4/5 Telarium

Felony!

DOS19844/5 BrainBank

Fish!

DOS19883.8/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Football Fanatic

DOS1998freeware4/5

Forbidden Castle

DOS19854/5 Angelsoft

Forbidden Quest

DOS19833.8/5 Pryority software

FreeDOS Shell

DOS2002freeware3.5/5

Galaxy

DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Global Thermo War

DOS19853.9/5

Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics

DOS19853.5/5 The Software Toolworks

Grand Prix

DOS19894/5 Wizard Games

Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected3.5/5 Paragon Software

Gumboots Australia

DOS19904/5 Reckon Software

Guns 'R' Us

DOS19933.8/5 Future Vision

GW-BASIC 3

DOS19884.2/5 Microsoft

GW-BASIC (short for Gee Whiz BASIC) is a dialect of the BASIC programming language that was developed by Microsoft. It's one of the early implementations of BASIC and was included as the default programming environment in early versions of the MS-DOS operating system.GW-BASIC was initially released with MS-DOS 2.0 in 1983. Subsequent versions of MS...

Hack

DOS1984freeware3.8/5

Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers

DOS19863.7/5 Activision

Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers is a video computer game developed by Steve Cartwright and published by Activision. It was released in 1986 and is a sequel to the original Hacker game. The game was available for various home computer systems of the time, including the Apple II, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS.In Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers, players take...