The most popular 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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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.
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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IBM Fixed Disk Organizer
DOS1983 IBM
Forbidden Castle
DOS1985 Angelsoft
Codebreaker
DOS1994freeware
Objection!
DOS1992
The Golden Fleece
DOS1989
Arachne WWW
DOS1996freeware
Arachne is a graphical web browser for DOS. Arachne was developed by Michal Polák and released in the early 1990s as a text-mode web browser with limited graphical capabilities. Arachne allowed DOS users to browse the World Wide Web in a graphical, though quite basic, manner. It supported features such as displaying images, handling lin...
Megapede
DOS1992
Data Perfect 2.6
DOS1993
At-slow4
DOS1989
Caverns of Chaos
DOS1992
Hamurabi remake
DOS1996freewareremake