Text-based games: ASCII, etc.
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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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.
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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Leather Goddesses of Phobos
DOS1986 Infocom
Legend of the Red Dragon
DOS1989 Robinson Technologies
LHA
DOS1988
Lost Adventures of Kroz
DOS1990freeware Apogee Software
Lynx
DOS1992freeware
Madball
DOS1985
Magnetic Scrolls Collection
DOS1991 Magnetic Scrolls
Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...
Math Cad 2.5
DOS1989
Megapede
DOS1992
Melody Maker 3
DOS1992
Meteors
DOS1989 Apogee Software
Mickey's Space Adventure
DOS1985 Sierra On-Line
Microsoft Cobol
DOS1982 Microsoft
Microsoft COBOL 1.12
DOS1984 Microsoft
Microsoft Diagnostics 3.01
DOS1994 Microsoft
Microsoft Multiplan 4.2
DOS1988 Microsoft
Microsoft Word
Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1983 Microsoft
Midway Campaign
DOS1983 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Mind Mirror
DOS1986
Mindshadow
DOSMac OS1985 Interplay Productions
Mindwheel
DOS1985 Synapse Software
Mission: Mainframe
DOS1987
Mo'Slo
DOS1990protected Dr.David's Super Crispy Software
The previous file hosted here was put online by mistake (it was the deluxe version, not the basic one). Copyright holders kindly allowed Abandonware DOS to link directly to their website where you can buy the deluxe version of Mo'Slo.
Monopoly
DOS1985
Monopoly (Adam Stevens)
DOS1998
Moonmist
DOS1986 Infocom
Moria
DOS1992freeware
Murder by the Dozen
DOS1983 BrainBank
Myth
DOS1989 Magnetic Scrolls
NetHack
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OSLinux1987freeware
NetHack is an open-source roguelike game that's been around since the early 1980s. It's a single-player dungeon exploration game where you navigate your character through a randomly generated dungeon filled with monsters, traps, treasures, and various items. The goal is to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, located deep within the dungeon's lowest leve...