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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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Caverns of Chaos
DOS1992
Caverns of Kroz
DOS1989freeware Apogee Software
Caverns of Kroz 2
DOS1989 Apogee Software
Caves of Thor
DOS1989 Apogee Software
Championship Manager
DOS1992 Domark Software
Championship Manager is the first chapter in one of the most successful football manager games series. The first Championship Manager was a text-based British football/soccer simulation and included teams from four English divisions, European cups and domestic cups as well. Championship Manager was designed by Paul and Oliver Collyer and ...
Championship Manager 93
DOS1993 Domark Software
Championship Manager Italia
DOS1993 Sports Interactive Limited
CheckIt 3
DOS1990
China Sea Trader
DOS1989
Classic Hangman
DOS1983 Norland Software
Codebreaker
DOS1994freeware
Core War Plus
DOS1984
Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall Street
DOS1988protected SoftServ
Crime and Punishment
DOS1984 Mindscape
Cutthroats
DOS1984 Infocom
Data Perfect 2.6
DOS1993
dBASE III
DOS1984 Ashton-Tate
dBASE III is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that was popular in the late 1980s. It was developed by Ashton-Tate, a software company. dBASE III was a successor to the earlier dBASE II and was part of a series of dBASE products. dBASE III played a significant role in the history of database management systems, especially during ...
Deadline
DOS1982 Infocom
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS1989 Silhouette Software
DeskMate
DOS1984
Deskmate is a software suite developed by Tandy Corporation that provided a graphical user interface (GUI) and a set of applications for personal computers. It was often bundled with Tandy's TRS-80 and Tandy 1000 series of computers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Deskmate included various applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet, calen...
DND
DOS1984
Doom: The Roguelike
DOS2005freeware
DOS Navigator v 1.5
DOS1991freeware
DOSBox
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS2002freeware
DOSBox is an open-source emulator that allows you to run software and games designed for the MS-DOS operating system on modern computers. As you probably already know, MS-DOS was a popular operating system used in the 1980s and early 1990s. DOSBox emulates the necessary hardware components and provides a DOS-like environment, allowing users to...
Doszip Commander
DOS2007freeware
Dr. Ruth Computer Game of Good Sex
DOS1986 Avalon Hill
Dracula in London
DOS1988 SDJ Enterprises
Dragon World
DOS1984 Telarium
Dragonriders of Pern
DOS1987 Everlasting
Dream Zone
DOS1988 Naughty Dog