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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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Demon's Tomb: The Awakening

DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software

EGA Trek

DOS1988remake3.3/5

Hollywood Hijinx

DOS19863.3/5 Infocom

Knight Exchange

DOS19883.2/5 Softdisk Publishing

Kingdom of Kroz 2

DOS19903.2/5 Apogee Software

Mindwheel

DOS19853.2/5 Synapse Software

The Astronomy Quiz

DOS19883.2/5 Softdisk Publishing

At-slow4

DOS19893.2/5

Return to Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.1/5 Apogee Software

Dragonriders of Pern

DOS19873.1/5 Everlasting

2112

DOS19943/5

At the Carnival

DOS1990freeware3/5

Bank Streek Writer Plus

DOS19863/5

Black Friday

DOS19833/5

Codebreaker

DOS1994freeware3/5

Kingdom of Hamil

DOS19873/5 Topologika Software

Lynx

DOS1992freeware3/5

Madball

DOS19853/5

Megapede

DOS19923/5

Mickey's Space Adventure

DOS19853/5 Sierra On-Line

Ooze: Creepy Nites

DOS19893/5 Dragonware Games

Pac Gal

DOS19823/5

Hamburger Hell

DOS1986remake2.8/5

CheckIt 3

DOS19902.8/5

DeskMate

DOS19842.8/5

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