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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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.
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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Stationfall
DOS1987 Infocom
Super ZZT
DOS1992 Epic MegaGames
Supernova
DOS1987freeware Apogee Software
Suspect
DOS1984 Infocom
Suspended
DOS1983 Infocom
Taipan for Windows
Windows XP/98/952002freeware
Temple of Kroz
DOS1990freeware Apogee Software
The Astronomy Quiz
DOS1988 Softdisk Publishing
The Final Crusade of Kroz
DOS1990freeware Apogee Software
The Fool's Errand
DOS1989freeware Synergistic Software
The Fool's Errand is a puzzle-adventure computer game created by Cliff Johnson and released in 1987 for Macintosh and later for MS-DOS. The game follows the journey of a nameless fool through a magical land inspired by Tarot ...
The Golden Fleece
DOS1989
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
DOSMac OS1984freeware 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 D...
The Lurking Horror
DOS1987 Infocom
The mist
DOS1985 Angelsoft
The Patcher 6.1
DOS1993
The President is Missing
DOS1988protected Cosmi Corporation
The Shadows of Mordor
DOS1988 Beam Software
The Three Musketeers
DOS1987 Greve Graphics
The Usurper
DOS1989 Sir-tech Software
The Witness
DOS1983 Infocom
The Wizard's Castle
DOS1981freeware
The Wizard's Castle is a classic text-based, dungeon-crawling adventure game released in 1980, designed by Joseph R. Power. The game was originally developed for the Exidy Sorcerer computer and later ported to various platforms, s...
TheDraw 4
DOS1986
Time and Magik: The Trilogy
DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
TomeNET
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS2001freeware
TomeNET (Troubles of Middle Earth, Net) is an online, multiplayer rogue-like game set in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. It’s a persistent-world game inspired by Angband, a single-player dungeon-crawler based on ...
Treasure Island
DOS1985 Byron Preiss Video Productions
Trinity
DOS1986 Infocom
Turbo Assembler (TASM)
DOSWindows XP/98/951989 Borland Software Corporation
Turbo Assembler and Tools 5.0, often referred to as TASM, is an x86 assembler for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. As a key component of Borland's suite of development tools, TASM was packaged alongside Turbo Debugger (TD),...
Turbo Pascal 7
DOSWindows 3.xMac OS1992 Borland Software Corporation
Turbo Pascal 7 (TP7) is a programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) that was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was developed by Borland as an evolution of their earlier Turbo Pascal versions. Tu...
Turbo Prolog 2.0
DOS1986protected Borland Software Corporation
Uplink: Hacker Elite
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS2001protected Introversion Software Limited
Uplink is a computer hacking simulation game released in 2001 by Introversion Software. The game allows players to take on the role of a hacker for hire and engage in various hacking activities.In Uplink, players perform tasks suc...