Text-based games: ASCII, etc.
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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Hockey League Simulator
DOS19903.3/5 Bethesda Softworks
Hollywood Hijinx
DOS19863.3/5 Infocom
Holy Grail
DOS19843.7/5
IBM Assistant 2.0
DOS19864.1/5 IBM
Incursion
WindowsLinuxMac2007freeware4/5
Indenture
DOS1995remake4.1/5
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS19874/5 Angelsoft
Infidel
DOS19833.3/5 Infocom
Inside Trader
DOS19874.1/5 Cosmi Corporation
James Bond 007: A View to a Kill
DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft
James Clavell's Shogun
DOS19894.2/5 Infocom
James Clavell's Shogun, a text adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1989. Infocom was known for its interactive fiction games, and "James Clavell's Shogun" was one of its later releases.This text adventure game is based on James Clavell's novel "Shogun" and follows the story of John Blackthorne, an English navigator who becomes invol...
Javelin
DOS19853.3/5
Jewels of Darkness
DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing
Kingdom of Hamil
DOS19873/5 Topologika Software
Kingdom of Kroz
DOS1988freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software
Kingdom of Kroz 2
DOS19903.2/5 Apogee Software
Knight Exchange
DOS19883.2/5 Softdisk Publishing
Lancelot
DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
Larn
DOS1986freeware3.9/5
Lawn Mower
DOS19873.8/5
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
Legend of the Red Dragon
DOS19893.5/5 Robinson Technologies
LHA
DOS19884.2/5
Lost Adventures of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.3/5 Apogee Software
Lynx
DOS1992freeware3/5
Madball
DOS19853/5
Magnetic Scrolls Collection
DOS19914.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...
Math Cad 2.5
DOS19894.3/5
Megapede
DOS19923/5