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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Demon's Forge
DOS1987 Mastertronic
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS1989 Silhouette Software
Dragon World
DOS1984 Telarium
Dream Zone
DOS1988 Naughty Dog
Earthly delights
DOS1984 Datamost
Enchanter
DOS1983 Infocom
Eric the Unready
DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
Essex
DOS1985 Synapse Software
Farenheit 451
DOS1984 Telarium
Fish!
DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
Forbidden Castle
DOS1985 Angelsoft
Forbidden Quest
DOS1983 Pryority software
Frederik Pohl's Gateway
DOS1992 Legend Entertainment
Frederik Pohl's Gateway is one of the best abandoned adventures games from Legend Entertainment. Gateway is an interactive fiction with graphics and an improved interface (unusual for IFs), based on the Frederik Pohl's novel Gateway. Tt was designed by Michael Verdu and Glen R. Dahlgren and published by Legend Entertainment in 1992.
Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams
DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
Gateway 2: Homeworld
DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
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.
Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back
DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS1985 The Software Toolworks
GrailQuest
DOS1989 Artworx Software
Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy
DOS1988protected Paragon Software
Hollywood Hijinx
DOS1986 Infocom
Holy Grail
DOS1984
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS1987 Angelsoft
Infidel
DOS1983 Infocom
Jack the Ripper
DOS1995 Intergalactic Development
James Bond 007: A View to a Kill
DOS1985 Angelsoft
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS1986 Angelsoft
James Clavell's Shogun
DOS1989 Infocom
James Clavell's Shogun, a text adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1989. Infocom was known for its interactive fiction games, and "James Clavell's Shogun" was one of its later releases.This text adventure game is based on James Clavell's novel "Shogun" and follows the story of John Blackthorne, an English navigator who becomes invol...
Jewels of Darkness
DOS1986 Level 9 Computing
Jinxter
DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls