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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Lynx
DOS1992freeware3/5
Lost Adventures of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.3/5 Apogee Software
LHA
DOS19884.2/5
Legend of the Red Dragon
DOS19893.5/5 Robinson Technologies
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
Lawn Mower
DOS19873.8/5
Larn
DOS1986freeware3.9/5
Lancelot
DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
Knight Exchange
DOS19883.2/5 Softdisk Publishing
Kingdom of Kroz 2
DOS19903.2/5 Apogee Software
Kingdom of Kroz
DOS1988freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software
Kingdom of Hamil
DOS19873/5 Topologika Software
Jewels of Darkness
DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing
Javelin
DOS19853.3/5
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...
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft
James Bond 007: A View to a Kill
DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
Inside Trader
DOS19874.1/5 Cosmi Corporation
Infidel
DOS19833.3/5 Infocom
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS19874/5 Angelsoft
Indenture
DOS1995remake4.1/5
Incursion
WindowsLinuxMac2007freeware4/5
IBM Assistant 2.0
DOS19864.1/5 IBM
Holy Grail
DOS19843.7/5
Hollywood Hijinx
DOS19863.3/5 Infocom
Hockey League Simulator
DOS19903.3/5 Bethesda Softworks
Hamburger Hell
DOS1986remake2.8/5
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...
Hack
DOS1984freeware3.8/5
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...