The most popular text-based games

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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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The Shadows of Mordor

DOS19883.8/5 Beam Software

FreeDOS Shell

DOS2002freeware3.6/5

Deadline

DOS19823.9/5 Infocom

Core War Plus

DOS19843.9/5

Norton Desktop

DOS19924/5 Peter Norton Computing

Rules of Engagement 2

DOS19933.9/5 Omnitrend Software

Voodoo island

DOS19853.8/5 Angelsoft

Microsoft Diagnostics 3.01

DOS19943/5 Microsoft

Evets

DOS1988freeware3.5/5 SAck Enterprizes

Incursion

WindowsLinuxMac OS2007freeware4/5

Mind Mirror

DOS19863.9/5

Rules of Engagement

DOS19913.6/5 Omnitrend Software

Objection!

DOS19923.3/5

Midway Campaign

DOS19834/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.

F-Prot

DOS19953.8/5

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