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
The mist
DOS19854/5 Angelsoft
The Pawn
DOS19864/5 Magnetic Scrolls
The Shadows of Mordor
DOS19883.8/5 Beam Software
The Usurper
DOS19893.8/5 Sir-tech Software
The Witness
DOS19834/5 Infocom
The Wizard of Oz
DOS19854/5 Windham Classics
Time and Magik: The Trilogy
DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
Timequest
DOS1991protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
Transylvania
DOS1986freeware4/5 Polarware
Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night
DOS19903.4/5 Polarware
Treasure Island
DOS19853.5/5 Byron Preiss Video Productions
Trinity
DOS19864.1/5 Infocom
Voodoo island
DOS19853.8/5 Angelsoft
Wishbringer
DOS19853.7/5 Infocom
Xtrek
DOS1991freewareNSFW4/5
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...
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz
DOS19834.2/5 Infocom
Zork III: The Dungeon Master
DOS19844/5 Infocom
Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle
DOS19883.4/5 Tom Snyder Productions
Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom
DOS19893.8/5 Tom Snyder Productions
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
DOS19894/5 Infocom