The most popular interactive fiction games
Interactive fiction games (or text adventures) are adventure games in which the player gives textual commands in order to act within the given story. The story itself is told both using text and static pictures or with no graphics of any kind, just text. The genre's stepping stones are Adventure (developed in 1975) and the Zork series. Infocom, Legend Entertainment and Magnetic scrolls were some of the most popular interactive fiction developers of the 80s.
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Sorcerer
DOS1984 Infocom
Eric the Unready
DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
The Wizard of Oz
DOS1985 Windham Classics
Scapeghost
DOS1989 Level 9 Computing
Moonmist
DOS1986 Infocom
Spellbreaker
DOS1985 Infocom
Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle
DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
Interactive fiction meets comic book in this spin-off, where you follow a fantasy story through illustrated panels and scripted choices. Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle feels like your dungeon master turned into a storyboard ...
Magnetic Scrolls Collection
DOS1991 Magnetic Scrolls
Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Gu...
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man
DOS1986 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...
Earthly delights
DOS1984 Datamost
Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative
DOS1985 Micromosaics
Spellcasting 301: Spring Break
DOS1992protected Legend Entertainment
Gateway 2: Homeworld
DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen
DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
Amazon
DOS1984 Telarium
From the mind of Michael Crichton comes Amazon, a game that lets you live out your jungle explorer fantasies—without the bugs or dysentery. You’re off to the Amazon to recover a missing expedition and probably get into...
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
DOS1987 Infocom
Demon's Forge
DOS1987 Mastertronic
Hollywood Hijinx
DOS1986 Infocom
The Witness
DOS1983 Infocom
Treasure Island
DOS1985 Byron Preiss Video Productions
Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing
DOS1985 Adventure International
Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls
DOS1990protected Legend Entertainment
Silicon Dreams
DOS1986 Level 9 Computing
Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game com...
Beyond the Titanic
DOS1986 Apogee Software
Before Titanic was a movie with a lot of weeping, there was Beyond the Titanic, a text adventure where surviving the iceberg is just the beginning. The game takes the historic disaster and then says, “What if we added a secr...
Brimstone
DOS1985 Synapse Software
Ever wanted to fight fire with... even more fire? Brimstone tosses you into a magical mess of spells, dungeons, and monsters who woke up on the wrong side of the crypt. It’s a 1985 RPG that oozes charm and confusion in equal...
Sherlock Holmes: Another bow
DOS1985 Magicom Multimedia
Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams
DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS1987 Angelsoft
Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom
DOS1989 Tom Snyder Productions
More illustrations, more intrigue, more doom. The Crystal of Doom continues the hybrid of comic-style storytelling and light role-playing with just enough choices to make you feel clever (or guilty). This time, you’re chasin...