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The best text-based games

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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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

Most popular text-based games

Norton Commander 5.5
Norton Commander 5.5
applicationDOS
Borland Turbo Basic 1.0
Borland Turbo Basic 1.0
applicationDOS
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
adventureDOS

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