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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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

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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

DOS19843.4/5 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

DOS19842.8/5

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

DOS1991freeware4/5

DOSBox

Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac2002freeware4.1/5

DOSBox is an open-source emulator that allows you to run software and games designed for the MS-DOS operating system on modern computers. As you probably already know, MS-DOS was a popular operating system used in the 1980s and early 1990s. DOSBox emulates the necessary hardware components and provides a DOS-like environment, allowing users to...

Doszip Commander

DOS2007freeware3.9/5

Dr. Ruth Computer Game of Good Sex

DOS19863.6/5 Avalon Hill

Dracula in London

DOS19883.5/5 SDJ Enterprises

Dragon World

DOS19844.2/5 Telarium

Dragonriders of Pern

DOS19873.1/5 Everlasting

Dream Zone

DOS19884.2/5 Naughty Dog

Drug wars: a game based on the New York drug market

DOS19843.3/5

Dungeon Crawl

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1997freeware4/5

Dungeon Crawl (also known as Linley's Dungeon Crawl from the name of the original programmer: Linley Henzell) is a classic roguelike: an RPG with permadeath, procedural generation and high replayability. Dungeon Crawl was released on 1997 but it's not maintained anymore. The spiritual successr of Crawl is DCCS (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup).