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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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Magnetic Scrolls Collection
DOS19914.1/5 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
DOS19893.9/5
Megapede
DOS19923/5
Melody Maker 3
DOS19924.3/5
Meteors
DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software
Mickey's Space Adventure
DOS19853.4/5 Sierra On-Line
Microsoft Diagnostics 3.01
DOS19943.7/5 Microsoft
Microsoft Word
Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x19833.5/5 Microsoft
Midway Campaign
DOS19834/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Mind Mirror
DOS19863.9/5
Mindshadow
DOSMac OS19853.6/5 Interplay Productions
Mindwheel
DOS19853.2/5 Synapse Software
Mission: Mainframe
DOS19873.9/5
Mo'Slo
DOS1990protected4.1/5 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
DOS19853.8/5
Monopoly (Adam Stevens)
DOS19983.9/5
Moonmist
DOS19863.8/5 Infocom
Moria
DOS1992freeware4/5
Murder by the Dozen
DOS19832.7/5 BrainBank
Myth
DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
NetHack
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OSLinux1987freeware3.7/5
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...
NewsMaster
DOS19863.8/5
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
DOS19873.4/5 Infocom
Norton Commander 1.0
DOS19863.9/5 Peter Norton Computing
Norton Commander was a file manager and editor application released by Peter Norton Computing for DOS. Norton Commander used a text-based user interface with side-by-side panels and featured copy, delete, editing and preview any kind of file easily: it was an improvement over the command-line only MS-DOS interface. Norton Commander 1.0 was fir...
Norton Commander 5.5
DOS19984.2/5 Peter Norton Computing
Norton Commander was one of the most popular file manager applications ever released for MS DOS. Its clever side-by-side windows interface and the ease of use allowed DOS users to copy, delete, move and preview any kind of file without the hassle of typing every command by hand. Norton Commander was first released in 1986, but the latest and final ...
Norton Desktop
DOS19924/5 Peter Norton Computing
Norton Editor 2
DOS19904.2/5 Peter Norton Computing
Objection!
DOS19923.5/5
Omega
DOSLinux1988freeware3.8/5
One-Nil Soccer Manager
DOS19923.9/5 New Era Software
One-Nil Soccer Manager is a text-based soccer management simulation game that was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was developed for various home computer systems, including DOS, Commodore 64 and Amiga. In One-Nil Soccer Manager, players take on the role of a soccer team manager, making strategic decisions to guide their team to s...