Text-based games: ASCII, etc.
A few genres traditionally linked to the beautiful world of ascii characters still survives: roguelikes (nethack, angband, etc.) and interactive fiction, for example.
Most popular text-based games
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DOS19923.8/5 New Era Software -
DOS19893/5 Dragonware Games -
DOS19822.9/5 -
DOS19823.6/5 Magicom Multimedia -
DOS1989protected4.1/5 PKware -
DOS19834.1/5 Infocom -
DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom -
DOS1987protected3.7/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. -
DOS19853.5/5 Avalon Hill -
DOS19883.2/5 Starsoft Development -
DOS19914.5/5 Microsoft -
DOS19914.1/5 Borland Software Corporation -
DOS19864.1/5 Adventure InternationalQuestprobe Featuring Spider-Man is an abandoned text-based adventure game designed by Scott Adams, developed and released by Adventure International in 1986 for DOS but was also published for Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, ZX Spectrum, MSX. Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is part of the Questprobe game series, the ...
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DOS19843.8/5 Adventure International -
DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft -
DOS19924.5/5 -
DOS19963.8/5 -
DOS19933.9/5 Simulations Canada -
DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software -
DOS1990freeware3.1/5 Apogee Software -
DOS19894/5 Wizard Games -
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac19844.3/5 Artificial Intelligence DesignRogue is one of the first RPGs in the history of video gaming. It's a text-based dungeon crawler in which you have to fight your way in the dungeon to recover the Amulet of Yendor. Rogue became popular around 1980 on mainframes and later ported to various platforms, including DOS in 1984. Rogue is simply the father of all the roguelike games that c...
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DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions -
DOS19913.6/5 Omnitrend Software -
DOS19933.9/5 Omnitrend Software -
DOS19933.5/5 -
DOS19893.8/5 Level 9 Computing -
DOS19844/5 Infocom -
DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia -
DOS19884.1/5 Challenge