Text-based games: ASCII, etc.
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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Softporn Adventure
DOS1981freewareNSFW4/5 Sierra On-Line
Sorcerer
DOS19844.1/5 Infocom
Spellbreaker
DOS19853.9/5 Infocom
SRAM
DOS19873.5/5 ERE Informatique
Star Fleet 1: The War Begins
DOSMac19853.8/5 Interstel Corporation
Star Fleet 2: Krellan Commander
DOS19894.2/5 Interstel Corporation
Star Saga: One - Beyond the Boundary
DOS19873.6/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace
DOS19893.9/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
Star Trek: First Contact
DOS19883.6/5 Simon & Schuster Interactive
Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative
DOS19854/5 Micromosaics
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy
DOSMac19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems
Starcross
DOS19823.7/5 Infocom
Stationfall
DOS19873.9/5 Infocom
Super ZZT
DOS19923.3/5 Epic MegaGames
Supernova
DOS1987freeware3.5/5 Apogee Software
Suspect
DOS19844.2/5 Infocom
Suspended
DOS19833.9/5 Infocom
Taipan for Windows
Windows XP/98/952002freeware3.5/5
Temple of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.8/5 Apogee Software
The Astronomy Quiz
DOS19883.2/5 Softdisk Publishing
The Final Crusade of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software
The Golden Fleece
DOS19894/5
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
DOSMac1984freeware4.2/5 Infocom
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a humorous free text adventure game based on the novel of the same name written by Douglas Adams (if you never read it, shame on you!). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was designed by Douglas Adams himself and interactive fiction god Steve Eric Meretzky, it was released by Infocom in 1984 for DOS and for...
The Lurking Horror
DOS19874.1/5 Infocom
The mist
DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
The Patcher 6.1
DOS19933.8/5
The President is Missing
DOS1988protected3.4/5 Cosmi Corporation
The Shadows of Mordor
DOS19883.7/5 Beam Software
The Usurper
DOS19893.8/5 Sir-tech Software
The Witness
DOS19834/5 Infocom