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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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
Caverns of Kroz 2
DOS19893.3/5 Apogee Software
Caves of Thor
DOS19893.4/5 Apogee Software
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 ...
Championship Manager 93
DOS19934/5 Domark Software
Championship Manager Italia
DOS19934.1/5 Sports Interactive Limited
CheckIt 3
DOS19902.8/5
China Sea Trader
DOS19893.5/5
Classic Hangman
DOS19833.6/5 Norland Software
Codebreaker
DOS1994freeware3/5
Core War Plus
DOS19843.9/5
Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall Street
DOS1988protected3.8/5 SoftServ
Crime and Punishment
DOS19844.1/5 Mindscape
Cutthroats
DOS19843.3/5 Infocom
Data Perfect 2.6
DOS19933.5/5
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
DOS19823.8/5 Infocom
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software
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
DOS19844.1/5
DOS Navigator v 1.5
DOS1991freeware4.1/5