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.
Text-based games
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DOS19853.2/5 Synapse Software
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DOS19854/5
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DOS19853.5/5 Avalon Hill
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DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
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DOS19853.9/5 Infocom
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DOSMac19853.7/5 Interstel Corporation
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DOS19854/5 Micromosaics
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DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
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DOS19853.5/5 Byron Preiss Video Productions
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DOS19853.8/5 Angelsoft
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DOS19853.8/5 Infocom
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DOS19864/5 Cognetics corporation
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DOS19863.5/5 Infocom
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DOS19863.8/5 Apogee Software
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DOS19863.9/5 Borland Software Corporation
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DOS19863.8/5 Borland Software Corporation
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DOS19864.1/5 Synapse Software
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DOS19863.7/5 Avalon Hill
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DOS1986remake2.8/5
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DOS19863.3/5 Infocom
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DOS19864.1/5 IBM
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DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft
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DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing
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DOS1986freeware4/5
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DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
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DOS19863.6/5
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DOS19863.8/5 Infocom
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DOS19863/5
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DOS19863.5/5 Peter Norton Computing
Norton Commander was a file manager and editor application released by Peter Norton Computing for DOS. Norton Commander used a text-based user interface with side-by-side panels and featured copy, delete, editing and preview any kind of file easily: it was an improvement over the command-line only MS-DOS interface. Norton Commander 1.0 was fir...
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DOS19864.1/5 Adventure International
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is an abandoned text-based adventure game designed by Scott Adams, developed and released by Adventure International in 1986 for DOS but was also published for Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, ZX Spectrum, MSX. Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is part of the Questprobe game series, the ...