Interactive fiction: text-based adventure 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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The Lurking Horror

DOS1987 Infocom

The mist

DOS1985 Angelsoft

The Pawn

DOS1986 Magnetic Scrolls

The Shadows of Mordor

DOS1988 Beam Software

The Usurper

DOS1989 Sir-tech Software

The Witness

DOS1983 Infocom

The Wizard of Oz

DOS1985 Windham Classics

Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS1988 Level 9 Computing

Timequest

DOS1991protected Legend Entertainment

Transylvania

DOS1986freeware Polarware

Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night

DOS1990 Polarware

Treasure Island

DOS1985 Byron Preiss Video Productions

Trinity

DOS1986 Infocom

Voodoo island

DOS1985 Angelsoft

Wishbringer

DOS1985 Infocom

Xtrek

DOS1991freewareNSFW

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

DOS1982 Infocom

Zork 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...