Text-based games: ASCII, etc. sorted by release date
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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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Meteors
DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software
Myth
DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Ooze: Creepy Nites
DOS19893/5 Dragonware Games
PKzip
DOS1989protected4.1/5 PKware
Rockstar!
DOS19894/5 Wizard Games
Scapeghost
DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing
Star Fleet 2: Krellan Commander
DOS19894.2/5 Interstel Corporation
Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace
DOS19893.9/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
The Golden Fleece
DOS19894/5
The Usurper
DOS19893.8/5 Sir-tech Software
Turbo Assembler (TASM)
DOSWindows 3.xWindows XP/98/9519894.3/5 Borland Software Corporation
Turbo Assembler, often referred to as TASM, is an x86 assembler for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. As a key component of Borland's suite of development tools, TASM was packaged alongside Turbo Debugger (TD), forming the Turbo Assembler/Turbo Debugger (TASM/TD) bundle. Turbo Assembler was favored for its speed and compatibility with the popular ...
Word Perfect 5
DOS19893.9/5 Corel
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
DOS19894/5 Infocom
Arj
DOS19904.2/5
ARJ is a file compression utility and file format created by Robert K. Jung. The name "ARJ" stands for "Archived by Robert Jung." It was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a compression tool for MS-DOS and other systems. ARJ offered high compression ratios and various features, such as archive encryption and error recovery.
At the Carnival
DOS1990freeware3/5
Boggle
DOS19903.5/5 HVB Software
Cascade
DOS19904.1/5 PC Solutions
CheckIt 3
DOS19903.1/5
Gumboots Australia
DOS19904/5 Reckon Software
Hockey League Simulator
DOS19903.4/5 Bethesda Softworks
Kingdom of Kroz 2
DOS19903.2/5 Apogee Software
Lost Adventures of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.3/5 Apogee Software
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.
Norton Editor 2
DOS19904.2/5 Peter Norton Computing
Return to Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.1/5 Apogee Software
Temple of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.8/5 Apogee Software
The Final Crusade of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software
A Night with Troi
DOS1991NSFW4/5
DOS Navigator v 1.5
DOS1991freeware4.1/5
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...