Abandonware DOS title

Text-based games: ASCII, etc. sorted by release date

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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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.
forbidden-castle-03

Forbidden Castle

DOS19854/5 Angelsoft
global-thermo-war-02

Global Thermo War

DOS19853.9/5
jamesbondview2kill-1

James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
javelin-spreadsheet-01

Javelin

DOS19853.3/5
mickey-space-adventure-04

Mickey's Space Adventure

DOS19853/5 Sierra On-Line
mindshadow-05

Mindshadow

DOSMac19853.6/5 Interplay Productions
mindwheel-02

Mindwheel

DOS19853.2/5 Synapse Software
monopoly-04

Monopoly

DOS19853.9/5
promanager-1

Pro Manager

DOS19853.5/5 Avalon Hill
rambo-first-blood-01

Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
spellbreaker-02

Spellbreaker

DOS19853.9/5 Infocom
starfleet1-battle-begins03

Star Fleet 1: The War Begins

DOSMac19853.8/5 Interstel Corporation
startrekkobayashi-1

Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative

DOS19854/5 Micromosaics
skthemist-1

The mist

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
treasure-island-01

Treasure Island

DOS19853.5/5 Byron Preiss Video Productions
voodoisland-1

Voodoo island

DOS19853.8/5 Angelsoft
wishbringer-1

Wishbringer

DOS19853.7/5 Infocom
amnesia-3

Amnesia

DOS19864/5 Cognetics corporation
ballyhoo-1

Ballyhoo

DOS19863.5/5 Infocom
beyond-titanic-01

Beyond the Titanic

DOS19863.8/5 Apogee Software
borland-reflex-2-01

Borland Reflex 2.0

DOS19863.8/5 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-pascal-3-03

Borland Turbo Pascal 3.0

DOS19863.8/5 Borland Software Corporation
breakers-1

Breakers

DOS19864.1/5 Synapse Software
dr-ruth-game-02

Dr. Ruth Computer Game of Good Sex

DOS19863.6/5 Avalon Hill
hacker-2-doomsday-papers-3

Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers

DOS19863.7/5 Activision
Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers is a video computer game developed by Steve Cartwright and published by Activision. It was released in 1986 and is a sequel to the original Hacker game. The game was available for various home computer systems of the time, including the Apple II, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS.In Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers, players take...
hamburger-hell-02

Hamburger Hell

DOS1986remake2.8/5
hollywoodhij-1

Hollywood Hijinx

DOS19863.3/5 Infocom
ibm-filing-assistant-02

IBM Assistant 2.0

DOS19864.1/5 IBM