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.
Most popular text-based games
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DOS1979freeware4.4/5 Software Arts -
DOS19813.6/5 Avalon Hill -
DOS19814/5 Microcomputer Games Inc. -
DOS1981freewareNSFW4/5 Sierra On-Line -
DOS19823.6/5 Sierra On-Line -
DOS19823.8/5 Infocom -
DOS19823.9/5 Armonk Corporation -
DOS19822.9/5 -
DOS19823.6/5 Magicom Multimedia -
DOS19823.7/5 Infocom -
DOS19823.9/5 Windmill Software -
DOS19824.2/5 InfocomZork is one of the most popular text-adventures and one of the first interactive fiction games ever created. The first Zork was developed in the seventies and ported on various platform by Infocom in the early 80s. Infocom was one of the most prolific developers of text-adventures for home computers and created memorable interactive fiction ga...
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DOS19833.4/5 -
DOS19834.4/5 Borland Software Corporation -
DOS19834.1/5 Borland Software Corporation -
DOS19833.4/5 Norland Software -
DOS19833.3/5 Infocom -
DOS19833.8/5 Pryority software -
DOS19833.3/5 Infocom -
DOS19834/5 Microcomputer Games Inc. -
DOS19832.7/5 BrainBank -
DOS19834.1/5 Infocom -
DOS1983freeware4.2/5 Norland Software -
DOS19833.8/5 Infocom -
DOS19834/5 Infocom -
DOS19834.2/5 Infocom -
DOS19843.7/5 Telarium -
DOS19843.8/5 -
DOS1984freeware4.2/5 -
DOS19843.8/5