Text-based games: ASCII, etc.
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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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.
A few genres traditionally linked to the beautiful world of ascii characters still survives: roguelikes (nethack, angband, etc.) and interactive fiction, for example.
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Norton Editor 2
DOS1990 Peter Norton Computing
Novell DOS 7
DOS1993 Novell
Objection!
DOS1992
Omega
DOSLinux1988freeware
One-Nil Soccer Manager
DOS1992 New Era Software
One-Nil Soccer Manager is a text-based soccer management simulation game that was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was developed for various home computer systems, including DOS, Commodore 64 and Amiga. In One-Nil Soccer Manager, players take on the role of a soccer team manager, making strategic decisions to guide their team to s...
Ooze: Creepy Nites
DOS1989 Dragonware Games
Pac Gal
DOS1982
Pac-girl
DOS1982 Magicom Multimedia
PKzip
DOS1989protected PKware
Planetfall
DOS1983 Infocom
Plundered Hearts
DOSMac OS1987 Infocom
President Elect: 1988 Edition
DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
President Elect: 1988 Edition is a political simulation game developed by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) and released in the mid-1980s. The game simulates U.S. presidential elections and allows players to take on the role of campaign managers in an effort to help their candidate win the election. Players can simulate U.S. presidential elect...
Pro Manager
DOS1985 Avalon Hill
Psycho
DOS1988 Starsoft Development
QBASIC
DOS1991 Microsoft
QBasic, or QuickBASIC, was an interpreted version of the BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft. It was designed to be easy to learn and use, making it accessible to beginners and hobbyist programmers. QBasic was part of Microsoft's QuickBASIC product line, which included both compiled and interpreted versions of the language. QBasi...
Quattro Pro v4
DOS1991 Borland Software Corporation
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man
DOS1986 Adventure International
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is an abandoned text-based adventure game designed by Scott Adams, developed and released by Adventure International in 1986 for DOS but was also published for Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, ZX Spectrum, MSX. Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is part of the Questprobe game series, the ...
Questprobe featuring The Hulk
DOS1984 Adventure International
Rambo First Blood Part 2
DOS1985 Angelsoft
Rawcopy
DOS1992
Red sky at morning
DOS1993 Simulations Canada
Return to Doom
DOS1988 Topologika Software
Return to Kroz
DOS1990freeware Apogee Software
Rockstar!
DOS1989 Wizard Games
Rogue
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1984 Artificial Intelligence Design
Rogue is one of the first RPGs in the history of video gaming. It's a text-based dungeon crawler in which you have to fight your way in the dungeon to recover the Amulet of Yendor. Rogue became popular around 1980 on mainframes and later ported to various platforms, including DOS in 1984. Rogue is simply the father of all the roguelike games that c...
Romantic encounters at the dome
DOS1988 MicroIllusions
Rules of Engagement
DOS1991 Omnitrend Software
Rules of Engagement 2
DOS1993 Omnitrend Software
Safe Opening Simulator
DOS1993