The best text-based games
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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Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1992freeware4/5
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DOS19834/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
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DOS19873.9/5 Infocom
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DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom
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DOS19853.9/5
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DOS19853.9/5 Infocom
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DOS1991NSFW3.9/5
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DOS19873.9/5 Infocom
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DOS19933.9/5 Simulations Canada
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DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
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DOS19823.9/5 Windmill Software
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DOS19873.9/5 Reality Technologies
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DOS19893.9/5 IBM
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DOS19863.9/5 Borland Software Corporation
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DOS19843.9/5 IBM
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DOS19893.9/5 Corel
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DOS1992freeware3.9/5
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DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
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WindowsLinuxDOS2007freeware3.9/5
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DOS19893.9/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
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DOS19873.9/5 Borland Software Corporation
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DOS19823.9/5 Armonk Corporation
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DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions
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DOS19933.9/5 Omnitrend Software
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DOS1987freeware3.9/5 Thinking Machine Associates
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021 is one of the first 4x turn-based strategy games, ASCII based. Anacreon is set in space, as most 4x sci-fi games are, and was published by Thinking Machines Associates and designed by George Moromisato who later re-released the game as freeware.
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DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom
Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.
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DOS19983.9/5
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DOS19923.9/5 Peter Norton Computing
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WindowsLinux2004freeware3.9/5
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DOS19833.8/5 Pryority software