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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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Avon
DOS1989 Topologika Software
B-1 Nuclear Bomber
DOS1981 Avalon Hill
Ballyhoo
DOS1986 Infocom
Bank Streek Writer Plus
DOS1986
Baseball Mogul
Windows XP/98/951997 Infinite Monkey Systems
Baseball Mogul 2006
Windows 10/112005
Beast
DOS1984
Beyond the Titanic
DOS1986 Apogee Software
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
DOS1987 Infocom
Bible Builder
DOS1992
Black Friday
DOS1983
Boggle
DOS1990 HVB Software
Border Zone
DOS1987 Infocom
Borland DBase 5
DOS1994 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Eureka: the Solver
DOS1987 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/98/951993 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Reflex 2.0
DOS1986 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
DOS1987 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
DOS1987 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Turbo C v2
DOS1988 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Turbo Pascal 1.0
DOS1983 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0
DOS1983 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Turbo Pascal 3.0
DOS1986 Borland Software Corporation
Breakers
DOS1986 Synapse Software
Brimstone
DOS1985 Synapse Software
Bureaucracy
DOSMac OS1987 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
DOS1987 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
DOS1990 PC Solutions
Castle Adventure
DOS1984freeware
Castle Elsinore
DOS1992 Temple Software