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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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Dungeon Crawl
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1997freeware
Dungeon Crawl (also known as Linley's Dungeon Crawl from the name of the original programmer: Linley Henzell) is a classic roguelike: an RPG with permadeath, procedural generation and high replayability. Dungeon Crawl was released on 1997 but it's not maintained anymore. The spiritual successr of Crawl is DCCS (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup).
Dungeon Master's Assistant Vol 1
DOS1988protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Dungeon Master's Assistant Vol 2
DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Dungeons of Kroz
DOS1989freeware Apogee Software
Dungeons of Kroz 2
DOS1989 Apogee Software
Earthly delights
DOS1984 Datamost
EGA Trek
DOS1988remake
Einstein Writer 7
DOS1985
Empire: Wargame of the Century
DOS1987 Northwest Software
Enchanter
DOS1983 Infocom
Essex
DOS1985 Synapse Software
Evets
DOS1988freeware SAck Enterprizes
Executive Suite
DOS1982 Armonk Corporation
F-Prot
DOS1995
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Farenheit 451
DOS1984 Telarium
Felony!
DOS1984 BrainBank
Fish!
DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls
Football Fanatic
DOS1998freeware
Forbidden Castle
DOS1985 Angelsoft
Forbidden Quest
DOS1983 Pryority software
FreeDOS Shell
DOS2002freeware
Galaxy
DOS1981 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Global Thermo War
DOS1985
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS1985 The Software Toolworks
Grand Prix
DOS1989 Wizard Games
Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy
DOS1988protected Paragon Software
Gumboots Australia
DOS1990 Reckon Software
Guns 'R' Us
DOS1993 Future Vision
GW-BASIC 3
DOS1988 Microsoft
GW-BASIC (short for Gee Whiz BASIC) is a dialect of the BASIC programming language that was developed by Microsoft. It's one of the early implementations of BASIC and was included as the default programming environment in early versions of the MS-DOS operating system.GW-BASIC was initially released with MS-DOS 2.0 in 1983. Subsequent versions of MS...