Text-based games: ASCII, etc. sorted by title, from Z to A
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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Dragon World
DOS19844.2/5 Telarium
Dracula in London
DOS19883.5/5 SDJ Enterprises
Dr. Ruth Computer Game of Good Sex
DOS19863.6/5 Avalon Hill
Doszip Commander
DOS2007freeware3.9/5
DOSBox
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac2002freeware4/5
DOSBox is an open-source emulator that allows you to run software and games designed for the MS-DOS operating system on modern computers. As you probably already know, MS-DOS was a popular operating system used in the 1980s and early 1990s. DOSBox emulates the necessary hardware components and provides a DOS-like environment, allowing users to...
DOS Navigator v 1.5
DOS1991freeware4.1/5
DND
DOS19844.1/5
DeskMate
DOS19843.3/5
Deskmate is a software suite developed by Tandy Corporation that provided a graphical user interface (GUI) and a set of applications for personal computers. It was often bundled with Tandy's TRS-80 and Tandy 1000 series of computers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Deskmate included various applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet, calen...
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software
Deadline
DOS19823.8/5 Infocom
dBASE III
DOS19844.3/5
dBASE III is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that was popular in the late 1980s. It was developed by Ashton-Tate, a software company. dBASE III was a successor to the earlier dBASE II and was part of a series of dBASE products. dBASE III played a significant role in the history of database management systems, especially during ...
Data Perfect 2.6
DOS19933.5/5
Cutthroats
DOS19843.3/5 Infocom
Crime and Punishment
DOS19844.1/5 Mindscape
Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall Street
DOS1988protected3.8/5 SoftServ
Core War Plus
DOS19843.9/5
Codebreaker
DOS1994freeware3/5
Classic Hangman
DOS19833.6/5 Norland Software
China Sea Trader
DOS19893.5/5
CheckIt 3
DOS19902.8/5
Championship Manager Italia
DOS19934.1/5 Sports Interactive Limited
Championship Manager 93
DOS19934/5 Domark Software
Championship Manager
DOS19924.1/5 Domark Software
Championship Manager is the first chapter in one of the most successful football manager games series. The first Championship Manager was a text-based British football/soccer simulation and included teams from four English divisions, European cups and domestic cups as well. Championship Manager was designed by Paul and Oliver Collyer and ...
Caves of Thor
DOS19893.4/5 Apogee Software
Caverns of Kroz 2
DOS19893.3/5 Apogee Software
Caverns of Kroz
DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software
Castle Elsinore
DOS19923.5/5 Temple Software
Castle Adventure
DOS1984freeware4.2/5
Cascade
DOS19904.1/5 PC Solutions
Business Simulator
DOS19873.9/5 Reality Development
Business Simulator is an abandoned business simulation game developed and released by Reality Development in 1987 for DOS only. Business Simulator is a text-based management simulation designed by an university professor.