Interactive fiction: text-based adventure 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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Kingdom of Hamil

DOS19873/5 Topologika Software

Knight orc

DOSMac19873.9/5 Level 9 Computing

Lancelot

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing

Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen

DOS19884/5 Tom Snyder Productions

Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS19864.2/5 Infocom

Legend of the Sword

DOS19884/5 Silicon Software

Magnetic Scrolls Collection

DOS19914.1/5 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 Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...

Mindshadow

DOSMac19853.6/5 Interplay Productions

Mindwheel

DOS19853.2/5 Synapse Software

Moonmist

DOS19863.8/5 Infocom

Myth

DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls

Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It

DOS19873.4/5 Infocom

Ooze: Creepy Nites

DOS19893/5 Dragonware Games

Perry Mason

DOS19853.9/5 Paisano Productions

Planetfall

DOS19834.1/5 Infocom

Plundered Hearts

DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom

Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS19853.9/5 Adventure International

Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man

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 ...