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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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Suspended

DOS1983 Infocom
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The mist

DOS1985 Angelsoft
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Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
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Adventure in Serenia

DOS1982 Sierra On-Line
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Demon's Tomb: The Awakening

DOS1989 Silhouette Software
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Treasure Island

DOS1985 Byron Preiss Video Productions
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Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom

DOS1989 Tom Snyder Productions
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Dragon World

DOS1984 Telarium
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Voodoo island

DOS1985 Angelsoft
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Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle

DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
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Amnesia

DOS1986 Cognetics corporation
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Return to Doom

DOS1988 Topologika Software
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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 Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...
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The Usurper

DOS1989 Sir-tech Software
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Earthly delights

DOS1984 Datamost
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Trinity

DOS1986 Infocom
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Essex

DOS1985 Synapse Software
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Spellcasting 301: Spring Break

DOS1992protected Legend Entertainment
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The Witness

DOS1983 Infocom
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Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS1988 MicroIllusions
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Forbidden Quest

DOS1983 Pryority software
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Moonmist

DOS1986 Infocom
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Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS1985 Magicom Multimedia
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Infidel

DOS1983 Infocom
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Sorcerer

DOS1984 Infocom
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Stationfall

DOS1987 Infocom
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Questprobe featuring The Hulk

DOS1984 Adventure International
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Borrowed Time

DOS1985 Interplay Productions
Borrowed Time is a graphic adventure video game developed and published by Interplay Productions. It was released in 1985 for various platforms, including the Apple Macintosh, Apple II, DOS, and Atari ST. The game is notable for its early use of digitized photos and a noir-style detective narrative.The game's story is set in the 1930s and foll...
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Scapeghost

DOS1989 Level 9 Computing