Abandonware DOS title

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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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.
forbidden-castle-03

Forbidden Castle

DOS1985 Angelsoft
codebreaker-02

Codebreaker

DOS1994freeware
objection-01

Objection!

DOS1992
arachne-www-03

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-02

Megapede

DOS1992
at-slow-1

At-slow4

DOS1989
hamurabi-01

Hamurabi remake

DOS1996freewareremake