Interactive fiction: text-based adventure games
Interactive fiction games (or text adventures) are adventure games in which the player gives textual commands in order to act within the given story. The story itself is told both using text and static pictures or with no graphics of any kind, just text. The genre's stepping stones are Adventure (developed in 1975) and the Zork series. Infocom, Legend Entertainment and Magnetic scrolls were some of the most popular interactive fiction developers of the 80s.
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Demon's Forge
DOS19873.1/5 Mastertronic
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software
Dragon World
DOS19843.9/5 Telarium
Dream Zone
DOS19884.2/5 Naughty Dog
Earthly delights
DOS19843.6/5 Datamost
Enchanter
DOS19833.3/5 Infocom
Eric the Unready
DOS1993protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
Essex
DOS19853.6/5 Synapse Software
Farenheit 451
DOS19843.4/5 Telarium
Fish!
DOS19883.8/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Forbidden Castle
DOS19854/5 Angelsoft
Forbidden Quest
DOS19833.8/5 Pryority software
Frederik Pohl's Gateway
DOS19924.1/5 Legend Entertainment
Frederik Pohl's Gateway is one of the best abandoned adventures games from Legend Entertainment. Gateway is an interactive fiction with graphics and an improved interface (unusual for IFs), based on the Frederik Pohl's novel Gateway. Tt was designed by Michael Verdu and Glen R. Dahlgren and published by Legend Entertainment in 1992.
Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams
DOS19883.8/5 Tom Snyder Productions
Gateway 2: Homeworld
DOS1993protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment
Gnome Ranger
DOS19873.7/5 Level 9 Computing
Gnome Ranger is an abandoned fantasy adventure game, developed and published by Level 9 Computing in 1987 for DOS. Gnome Ranger was designed by Peter Austin who also designed the sequel Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back.
Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back
DOS19883.8/5 Level 9 Computing
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS19853.6/5 The Software Toolworks
GrailQuest
DOS19893.3/5 Artworx Software
Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy
DOS1988protected3.5/5 Paragon Software
Hollywood Hijinx
DOS19863.3/5 Infocom
Holy Grail
DOS19843.7/5
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS19874/5 Angelsoft
Infidel
DOS19833.3/5 Infocom
Jack the Ripper
DOS19953.8/5 Intergalactic Development
James Bond 007: A View to a Kill
DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft
James Clavell's Shogun
DOS19894.3/5 Infocom
James Clavell's Shogun, a text adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1989. Infocom was known for its interactive fiction games, and "James Clavell's Shogun" was one of its later releases.This text adventure game is based on James Clavell's novel "Shogun" and follows the story of John Blackthorne, an English navigator who becomes invol...
Jewels of Darkness
DOS19864.3/5 Level 9 Computing
Jinxter
DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls