Abandonware DOS title

Text-based games: ASCII, etc. sorted by year, newest first

In the past, lots of games used ASCII characters (text) to represent the game world. These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.
A few genres traditionally linked to the beautiful world of ascii characters still survives: roguelikes (nethack, angband, etc.) and interactive fiction, for example.
grand-prix-hole-03

Grand Prix

DOS19894/5 Wizard Games
js-shogun-02

James Clavell's Shogun

DOS19894.2/5 Infocom
legend-of-the-red-dragon-04

Legend of the Red Dragon

DOS19893.5/5 Robinson Technologies
mathcad2-01

Math Cad 2.5

DOS19894.3/5
meteors-05

Meteors

DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software
myth-ms-02

Myth

DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
ooze-01

Ooze: Creepy Nites

DOS19893/5 Dragonware Games
pkunzip-1

PKzip

DOS1989protected3.9/5 PKware
rockstar-1

Rockstar!

DOS19894/5 Wizard Games
scapeghost-1

Scapeghost

DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing
starfleet2-krellan-01

Star Fleet 2: Krellan Commander

DOS19894.2/5 Interstel Corporation
star-saga-2-2

Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace

DOS19893.9/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
the-golden-fleece-03

The Golden Fleece

DOS19894/5
usurper-1

The Usurper

DOS19893.8/5 Sir-tech Software
tasm-02

Turbo Assembler (TASM)

DOSWindows 3.xWindows XP/98/9519894/5 Borland Software Corporation
Turbo Assembler, often referred to as TASM, is an x86 assembler for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. It was part of the Turbo Assembler/Turbo Debugger (TASM/TD) package that Borland released as part of their Turbo Assembler product line. Borland was a software company known for its development tools during the 1980s and 1990s.
word-perfect-5-02

Word Perfect 5

DOS19893.9/5 Corel
dudley-dilemma-04

A Dudley Dilemma

DOS19883.3/5
borland-turbo-c-2-02

Borland Turbo C v2

DOS19883.8/5 Borland Software Corporation
corporate-raider-2

Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall Street

DOS1988protected3.8/5 SoftServ
dracula-in-london-03

Dracula in London

DOS19883.5/5 SDJ Enterprises
dream-zone-02

Dream Zone

DOS19884.2/5 Naughty Dog
dungeonmasterass1enc-1

Dungeon Master's Assistant Vol 1

DOS1988protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
egatrek-03

EGA Trek

DOS1988remake3/5
evets-5

Evets

DOS1988freeware3.5/5 SAck Enterprizes
fish-01

Fish!

DOS19883.8/5 Magnetic Scrolls
guardinfinity-1

Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected3.5/5 Paragon Software
gwbasic-03

GW-BASIC 3

DOS19884.2/5 Microsoft
GW-BASIC (short for Gee Whiz BASIC) is a dialect of the BASIC programming language that was developed by Microsoft. It's one of the early implementations of BASIC and was included as the default programming environment in early versions of the MS-DOS operating system.GW-BASIC was initially released with MS-DOS 2.0 in 1983. Subsequent versions of MS...
kingdomkroz-1

Kingdom of Kroz

DOS1988freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software
knight-exchange-03

Knight Exchange

DOS19883.2/5 Softdisk Publishing