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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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.

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Dragonriders of Pern

DOS1987 Everlasting

Dream Zone

DOS1988 Naughty Dog

Drug wars: a game based on the New York drug market

DOS1984

Druglord

DOS1991

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...

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

F-PROT is an antivirus developed by FRISK Software International. The name "F-PROT" stands for "FRISK-PROActive," emphasizing its proactive approach to virus detection and prevention. F-PROT Antivirus is designed to protect comput...