Abandonware DOS title

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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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.
turbo-pascal-2-01

Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0

DOS19834/5 Borland Software Corporation
borland-turbo-pascal-3-03

Borland Turbo Pascal 3.0

DOS19863.8/5 Borland Software Corporation
breakers-1

Breakers

DOS19864.1/5 Synapse Software
brimstone-1

Brimstone

DOS19853.4/5 Synapse Software
bureaucracy-02

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-03

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-01

Cascade

DOS19904.1/5 PC Solutions
castle-adventure-04

Castle Adventure

DOS1984freeware4.2/5
castleelsinore-1

Castle Elsinore

DOS19923.5/5 Temple Software
caverns-of-kroz-2

Caverns of Kroz

DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software
caverns-of-kroz-2-2

Caverns of Kroz 2

DOS19893.3/5 Apogee Software
caves-of-thor-05

Caves of Thor

DOS19893.4/5 Apogee Software
championship-manager-1-01

Championship Manager

DOS19924.1/5 Domark Software
Championship Manager is the first chapter in one of the most successful football manager games series. The first Championship Manager was a text-based British football/soccer simulation and included teams from four English divisions, European cups and domestic cups as well. Championship Manager was designed by Paul and Oliver Collyer and ...
champ-manager-93-01

Championship Manager 93

DOS19934/5 Domark Software
championship-manager-italia-02

Championship Manager Italia

DOS19934.1/5 Sports Interactive Limited
checkit-3-02

CheckIt 3

DOS19902.8/5
chinaseatrader-2

China Sea Trader

DOS19893.5/5
classic-hangman-05

Classic Hangman

DOS19833.6/5 Norland Software
codebreaker-02

Codebreaker

DOS1994freeware3/5
corewar-plus-05

Core War Plus

DOS19843.9/5
corporate-raider-2

Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall Street

DOS1988protected3.8/5 SoftServ
crime-and-punishment-05

Crime and Punishment

DOS19844.1/5 Mindscape
cutthroats-02

Cutthroats

DOS19843.3/5 Infocom
dataperfect26-02

Data Perfect 2.6

DOS19933.5/5
dbase3-02

dBASE III

DOS19844.3/5
dBASE III is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that was popular in the late 1980s. It was developed by Ashton-Tate, a software company. dBASE III was a successor to the earlier dBASE II and was part of a series of dBASE products. dBASE III played a significant role in the history of database management systems, especially during ...
deadline-2

Deadline

DOS19823.8/5 Infocom
demon-tomb-02

Demon's Tomb: The Awakening

DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software
hd-deskmate-01

DeskMate

DOS19843.3/5
Deskmate is a software suite developed by Tandy Corporation that provided a graphical user interface (GUI) and a set of applications for personal computers. It was often bundled with Tandy's TRS-80 and Tandy 1000 series of computers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Deskmate included various applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet, calen...
dnd_text-02

DND

DOS19844.1/5
dos-navigator-1-01

DOS Navigator v 1.5

DOS1991freeware4.1/5