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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DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
Gnome Ranger
DOS1987 Level 9 Computing
Gnome Ranger is an abandoned fantasy adventure game, developed and published by Level 9 Computing in 1987 for DOS. Gnome Ranger was designed by Peter Austin who also designed the sequel Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back.
Stationfall
DOS1987 Infocom
Questprobe featuring The Hulk
DOS1984 Adventure International
Starcross
DOS1982 Infocom
Beyond the Titanic
DOS1986 Apogee Software
Jewels of Darkness
DOS1986 Level 9 Computing
Fish!
DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
Hollywood Hijinx
DOS1986 Infocom
Transylvania
DOS1986freeware Polarware
Border Zone
DOS1987 Infocom
African Adventure
DOS1997remake
Demon's Forge
DOS1987 Mastertronic
Breakers
DOS1986 Synapse Software
Journey: The Quest Begins
DOS1989 Infocom
Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy
DOS1988protected Paragon Software
Spellbreaker
DOS1985 Infocom
Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos
DOS1986 Magicom Multimedia
Legend of the Sword
DOS1988 Silicon Software
Rendezvous with Rama
DOS1985 Telarium
Rendezvous with Rama is an interactive fiction (text adventure) game released in 1984. Telarium, a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, was known for producing narrative-driven games based on popular literary works. This adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's novel is one of the earlier attempts to translate a science fiction classic into an interactive for...
Farenheit 451
DOS1984 Telarium
Holy Grail
DOS1984
Perry Mason
DOS1985 Paisano Productions
A Dudley Dilemma
DOS1988
Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night
DOS1990 Polarware
Passengers on the Wind
DOS1986 Infogrames
Alice in Wonderland
DOS1989
Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen
DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
The Fourth Protocol
DOS1987 The Electronic Pencil Co.
The Fourth Protocol is a 1985 interactive fiction video game inspired by Frederick Forsyth's 1984 Cold War spy novel of the same name. Developed by the Electronic Pencil Company and published by Hutchinson Computer Publishing, the game was released on platforms such as the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and IBM PC (in 1997). Designed as a ...
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
DOS1987 Infocom