The best text-based games

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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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

DOS19853.5/5 Avalon Hill

Safe Opening Simulator

DOS19933.5/5

SRAM

DOS19873.5/5 ERE Informatique

Supernova

DOS1987freeware3.5/5 Apogee Software

Treasure Island

DOS19853.5/5 Byron Preiss Video Productions

Taipan for Windows

Windows XP/98/952002freeware3.5/5

Castle Elsinore

DOS19923.5/5 Temple Software

Brimstone

DOS19853.4/5 Synapse Software

Avon

DOS19893.4/5 Topologika Software

Caves of Thor

DOS19893.4/5 Apogee Software

Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It

DOS19873.4/5 Infocom

Air Trax

DOS19833.4/5

1893: A World's Fair Mystery

Windows XP/98/95Mac20033.4/5

Cutthroats

DOS19843.4/5 Infocom

Skullduggery: Adventures in Horror

DOS19863.4/5

Psycho

DOS19883.4/5 Starsoft Development

The President is Missing

DOS1988protected3.4/5 Cosmi Corporation

Farenheit 451

DOS19843.4/5 Telarium

F-Prot

DOS19953.3/5

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