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The most popular interactive fiction 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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Seastalker

DOS1984 Infocom
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A Dudley Dilemma

DOS1988
A Dudley Dilemma (1988) sounds like the title of a children’s book, but it’s actually a very British text adventure for DOS where the stakes are politely quirky and mildly confusing. You play as Dudley, a man with problems that range from the mundane to the absurd, depending on your choices and sense of direction - both literal and narr...
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GrailQuest

DOS1989 Artworx Software
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Silicon Dreams

DOS1986 Level 9 Computing
Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game combines elements of science fiction with puzzle-solving and exploration. All three games are text-based, relying on d...
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Starcross

DOS1982 Infocom
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Legend of the Sword

DOS1988 Silicon Software
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Ooze: Creepy Nites

DOS1989 Dragonware Games
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Mindwheel

DOS1985 Synapse Software
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Kingdom Without End

DOS2001freeware
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Farenheit 451

DOS1984 Telarium
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Passengers on the Wind 2

DOS1987 Infogrames
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Holy Grail

DOS1984
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Kingdom of Hamil

DOS1987 Topologika Software
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Passengers on the Wind

DOS1986 Infogrames
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Essex

DOS1985 Synapse Software
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Scrooge

DOS1991 Leisuresoft
Scrooge is an abandoned interactive fiction graphic adventure game developed and released by Leisuresoft in 1991 for DO. Scrooge is based on the popular Christmas tale of the same name.