Text-based games: ASCII, etc.
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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Avon
DOS19893.4/5 Topologika Software
B-1 Nuclear Bomber
DOS19813.6/5 Avalon Hill
Ballyhoo
DOS19863.5/5 Infocom
Bank Streek Writer Plus
DOS19863/5
Baseball Mogul
Windows XP/98/9519973.9/5 Infinite Monkey Systems
Baseball Mogul 2006
Windows20054.1/5
Beast
DOS19843.8/5
Beyond the Titanic
DOS19863.8/5 Apogee Software
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
DOS19874/5 Infocom
Bible Builder
DOS19923.5/5
Boggle
DOS19903.5/5 HVB Software
Border Zone
DOS19873.8/5 Infocom
Borland DBase 5
DOS19944/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Eureka: the Solver
DOS19873.9/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Eureka: the Solver is an abandoned text-based application developed by Borland Software Corporation and released in 1987 for DOS. The product is designed to solve complex problems, generate tables and plots, and perform what-if analysis. The user writes an equation, sets options, and instructs the software to solve the problem. The pro...
Borland Paradox 4.5
DOSWindows XP/98/9519934/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Reflex 2.0
DOS19863.7/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Reflex was a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Borland International, a software company that was prominent in the 1980s and 1990s. Reflex was released in the mid-1980s as a graphical database software primarily targeted at business and professional users.
Borland Turbo Basic 1.0
DOS19874.1/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Turbo Basic was a programming language developed by Borland, a software company that was prominent in the 1980s and 1990s. Turbo Basic was part of the Turbo series of programming languages and development tools that Borland created during that time.Turbo Basic was designed as a fast and efficient version of the BASIC programming language. B...
Borland Turbo C v1
DOS19874.1/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Turbo C v2
DOS19883.6/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Turbo Pascal 1.0
DOS19834/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0
DOS19834/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Turbo Pascal 3.0
DOS19863.8/5 Borland Software Corporation
Breakers
DOS19864.1/5 Synapse Software
Brimstone
DOS19853.4/5 Synapse Software
Bureaucracy
DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom
Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.
Business Simulator
DOS19873.9/5 Reality Development
Business Simulator is an abandoned business simulation game developed and released by Reality Development in 1987 for DOS only. Business Simulator is a text-based management simulation designed by an university professor.
Cascade
DOS19904.1/5 PC Solutions
Castle Adventure
DOS1984freeware4.2/5
Castle Elsinore
DOS19923.5/5 Temple Software
Caverns of Kroz
DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software