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Interactive fiction: text-based adventure games

Interactive fiction games (or text adventures) are adventure games in which the player gives textual commands in order to act within the given story. The story itself is told both using text and static pictures or with no graphics of any kind, just text. The genre's stepping stones are Adventure (developed in 1975) and the Zork series. Infocom, Legend Entertainment and Magnetic scrolls were some of the most popular interactive fiction developers of the 80s.
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The Lurking Horror

DOS19874.1/5 Infocom
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The mist

DOS19854/5 Angelsoft
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The Pawn

DOS19864/5 Magnetic Scrolls
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The Shadows of Mordor

DOS19883.8/5 Beam Software
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The Usurper

DOS19893.8/5 Sir-tech Software
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The Witness

DOS19834/5 Infocom
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The Wizard of Oz

DOS19854/5 Windham Classics
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Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
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Timequest

DOS1991protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
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Transylvania

DOS1986freeware4/5 Polarware
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Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night

DOS19903.4/5 Polarware
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Treasure Island

DOS19853.5/5 Byron Preiss Video Productions
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Trinity

DOS19864.1/5 Infocom
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Voodoo island

DOS19853.8/5 Angelsoft
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Wishbringer

DOS19853.7/5 Infocom
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Xtrek

DOS1991freewareNSFW4/5
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Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

DOS19824.2/5 Infocom
Zork is one of the most popular text-adventures and one of the first interactive fiction games ever created. The first Zork was developed in the seventies and ported on various platform by Infocom in the early 80s. Infocom was one of the most prolific developers of text-adventures for home computers and created memorable interactive fiction ga...
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Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz

DOS19834.2/5 Infocom
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Zork III: The Dungeon Master

DOS19844/5 Infocom
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Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle

DOS19883.4/5 Tom Snyder Productions
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Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom

DOS19893.8/5 Tom Snyder Productions