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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Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos
DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia
Wall Street Raider
DOS19864.3/5
Earthly delights
DOS19843.6/5 Datamost
FreeDOS Shell
DOS2002freeware3.5/5
Caves of Thor
DOS19893.4/5 Apogee Software
Scapeghost
DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing
Beast
DOS19843.8/5
Core War Plus
DOS19843.9/5
Jewels of Darkness
DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing
Drug wars: a game based on the New York drug market
DOS19843.3/5
Air Traffic Controller
DOS19854.2/5 Cascoly Software
Math Cad 2.5
DOS19894.3/5
Ballyhoo
DOS19863.5/5 Infocom
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software
Doszip Commander
DOS2007freeware3.9/5
Trinity
DOS19864.1/5 Infocom
2112
DOS19943/5
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS19853.5/5 The Software Toolworks
Larn
DOS1986freeware3.9/5
Skullduggery: Adventures in Horror
DOS19863.4/5
Star Fleet 1: The War Begins
DOSMac19853.8/5 Interstel Corporation
Moonmist
DOS19863.8/5 Infocom
Microsoft Diagnostics 3.01
DOS19943.7/5 Microsoft
Questprobe featuring The Hulk
DOS19843.9/5 Adventure International
Dungeons of Kroz
DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software
President Elect
DOS1987protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Borland Reflex 2.0
DOS19863.7/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Reflex was a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Borland International, a software company that was prominent in the 1980s and 1990s. Reflex was released in the mid-1980s as a graphical database software primarily targeted at business and professional users.
Super ZZT
DOS19923.3/5 Epic MegaGames
Cutthroats
DOS19843.4/5 Infocom
Grand Prix
DOS19894/5 Wizard Games