Text-based games: ASCII, etc. sorted by release date
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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Essex
DOS19853.6/5 Synapse Software
Forbidden Castle
DOS19854/5 Angelsoft
Global Thermo War
DOS19853.9/5
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS19853.5/5 The Software Toolworks
James Bond 007: A View to a Kill
DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
Javelin
DOS19853.3/5
Madball
DOS19853/5
Mickey's Space Adventure
DOS19853/5 Sierra On-Line
Mindshadow
DOSMac OS19853.6/5 Interplay Productions
Mindwheel
DOS19853.2/5 Synapse Software
Monopoly
DOS19853.9/5
Pro Manager
DOS19853.5/5 Avalon Hill
Rambo First Blood Part 2
DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
Spellbreaker
DOS19853.9/5 Infocom
Star Fleet 1: The War Begins
DOSMac OS19853.8/5 Interstel Corporation
Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative
DOS19854/5 Micromosaics
The mist
DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
Treasure Island
DOS19853.5/5 Byron Preiss Video Productions
Voodoo island
DOS19853.8/5 Angelsoft
Wishbringer
DOS19853.7/5 Infocom
Amnesia
DOS19864/5 Cognetics corporation
Ballyhoo
DOS19863.5/5 Infocom
Bank Streek Writer Plus
DOS19863/5
Beyond the Titanic
DOS19863.8/5 Apogee Software
Borland Reflex 2.0
DOS19863.7/5 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 3.0
DOS19863.8/5 Borland Software Corporation
Breakers
DOS19864.1/5 Synapse Software
Dr. Ruth Computer Game of Good Sex
DOS19863.6/5 Avalon Hill
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
DOS1986remake2.8/5