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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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.

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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...