Text-based games: ASCII, etc. sorted by title, from Z to A

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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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Guns 'R' Us

DOS19933.8/5 Future Vision

Gumboots Australia

DOS19904/5 Reckon Software

Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected3.5/5 Paragon Software

Grand Prix

DOS19894/5 Wizard Games

Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics

DOS19853.5/5 The Software Toolworks

Global Thermo War

DOS19853.9/5

Galaxy

DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.

FreeDOS Shell

DOS2002freeware3.5/5

Forbidden Quest

DOS19833.8/5 Pryority software

Forbidden Castle

DOS19854/5 Angelsoft

Football Fanatic

DOS1998freeware4/5

Fish!

DOS19883.8/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Felony!

DOS19844/5 BrainBank

Farenheit 451

DOS19843.4/5 Telarium

F-Prot

DOS19953.3/5

F-PROT is an antivirus developed by FRISK Software International. The name "F-PROT" stands for "FRISK-PROActive," emphasizing its proactive approach to virus detection and prevention. F-PROT Antivirus is designed to protect computer systems from various forms of malware, including viruses, worms, Trojans, and other malicious software.

Executive Suite

DOS19823.9/5 Armonk Corporation

Evets

DOS1988freeware3.5/5 SAck Enterprizes

Essex

DOS19853.6/5 Synapse Software

Enchanter

DOS19833.3/5 Infocom

Empire: Wargame of the Century

DOS19874/5 Northwest Software

Einstein Writer 7

DOS19853.5/5

EGA Trek

DOS1988remake3.3/5

Earthly delights

DOS19843.6/5 Datamost

Dungeons of Kroz 2

DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software

Dungeons of Kroz

DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software

Dungeon Master's Assistant Vol 2

DOS1989protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Dungeon Master's Assistant Vol 1

DOS1988protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Dungeon Crawl

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1997freeware4/5

Dungeon Crawl (also known as Linley's Dungeon Crawl from the name of the original programmer: Linley Henzell) is a classic roguelike: an RPG with permadeath, procedural generation and high replayability. Dungeon Crawl was released on 1997 but it's not maintained anymore. The spiritual successr of Crawl is DCCS (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup).