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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DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia
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DOS19863.1/5
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DOSMac19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems
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DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
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DOS1986protected4.1/5 Borland Software Corporation
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DOS19864.1/5
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DOS19864.2/5 MicroPro International
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DOS19873.7/5
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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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DOS19873.9/5 Infocom
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DOS19873.8/5 Infocom
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DOS19873.9/5 Borland Software Corporation
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DOS19874.1/5 Borland Software Corporation
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DOS19874.3/5 Borland Software Corporation
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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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DOS19873.9/5 Reality Technologies
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DOS19873.1/5 Everlasting
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DOS19874/5 Northwest Software
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DOS19874/5 Angelsoft
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DOS19874/5 Cosmi Corporation
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DOS19873/5 Topologika Software
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DOS19874/5
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DOS19873.8/5
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DOS1987freeware3.7/5
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DOS19873.4/5 Infocom
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DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom
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DOS1987protected3.7/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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DOS19873.6/5 Level 9 Computing
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DOS19873.5/5 ERE Informatique
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DOS19873.6/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation