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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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Ooze: Creepy Nites
DOS19893/5 Dragonware Games
Pac Gal
DOS19823.1/5
Pac-girl
DOS19823.7/5 Magicom Multimedia
PKzip
DOS1989protected4.1/5 PKware
Planetfall
DOS19834.2/5 Infocom
Plundered Hearts
DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Infocom
President Elect: 1988 Edition
DOS1987protected3.7/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
President Elect: 1988 Edition is a political simulation game developed by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) and released in the mid-1980s. The game simulates U.S. presidential elections and allows players to take on the role of campaign managers in an effort to help their candidate win the election. Players can simulate U.S. presidential elect...
Pro Manager
DOS19853.5/5 Avalon Hill
Psycho
DOS19883.4/5 Starsoft Development
QBASIC
DOS19914.3/5 Microsoft
QBasic, or QuickBASIC, was an interpreted version of the BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft. It was designed to be easy to learn and use, making it accessible to beginners and hobbyist programmers. QBasic was part of Microsoft's QuickBASIC product line, which included both compiled and interpreted versions of the language. QBasi...
Quattro Pro v4
DOS19913.8/5 Borland Software Corporation
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man
DOS19864.1/5 Adventure International
Questprobe 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 ...
Questprobe featuring The Hulk
DOS19843.9/5 Adventure International
Rambo First Blood Part 2
DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
Rawcopy
DOS19924.2/5
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
DOS19964/5
Red sky at morning
DOS19933.9/5 Simulations Canada
Return to Doom
DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software
Return to Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.1/5 Apogee Software
Rockstar!
DOS19894/5 Wizard Games
Rogue
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS19844.1/5 Artificial Intelligence Design
Rogue 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...
Romantic encounters at the dome
DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions
Rules of Engagement
DOS19913.6/5 Omnitrend Software
Rules of Engagement 2
DOS19933.9/5 Omnitrend Software
Safe Opening Simulator
DOS19933.5/5
Scapeghost
DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing
Seastalker
DOS19844/5 Infocom
Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos
DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels
DOS19884.1/5 Challenge
Silicon Dreams
DOS19863.6/5 Level 9 Computing
Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game combines elements of science fiction with puzzle-solving and exploration. All three games are text-based, relying on d...