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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DOS1984 Infocom
Sex Vixens from Space
DOS1989NSFW Free Spirit Software
Sherlock Holmes: Another bow
DOS1985 Magicom Multimedia
Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos
DOS1986 Magicom Multimedia
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels
DOS1988 Challenge
Silicon Dreams
DOS1986 Level 9 Computing
Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game combines elements of science fiction with puzzle-solving and exploration. All three games are text-based, relying on d...
Softporn Adventure
DOS1981freewareNSFW Sierra On-Line
Sorcerer
DOS1984 Infocom
Spellbreaker
DOS1985 Infocom
Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls
DOS1990protected Legend Entertainment
Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance
DOS1991protectedNSFW Legend Entertainment
Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance is an adventure game released in 1991, developed by Steve Meretzky and published by Legend Entertainment. It’s the second installment in the "Spellcasting" series. In Spellcasting 201, you reprise the role of Ernie Eaglebeak, an apprentice wizard who is attending the Sorcerer University. The sto...
Spellcasting 301: Spring Break
DOS1992protected Legend Entertainment
Star Trek: First Contact
DOS1988 Simon & Schuster Interactive
Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative
DOS1985 Micromosaics
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy
DOSMac OS1986 TRANS Fiction Systems
Starcross
DOS1982 Infocom
Stationfall
DOS1987 Infocom
Supernova
DOS1987freeware Apogee Software
Suspect
DOS1984 Infocom
Suspended
DOS1983 Infocom
Tass Times in Tonetown
DOS1986 Interplay Productions
The Crack of Doom
DOS1989 Beam Software
The Fellowship of the Ring
DOS1986 Beam Software
The Fourth Protocol
DOS1987 The Electronic Pencil Co.
The Fourth Protocol is a 1985 interactive fiction video game inspired by Frederick Forsyth's 1984 Cold War spy novel of the same name. Developed by the Electronic Pencil Company and published by Hutchinson Computer Publishing, the game was released on platforms such as the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and IBM PC (in 1997). Designed as a ...
The Golden Fleece
DOS1989
The Guild of Thieves
DOS1987 Magnetic Scrolls
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
DOSMac OS1984freeware Infocom
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a humorous free text adventure game based on the novel of the same name written by Douglas Adams (if you never read it, shame on you!). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was designed by Douglas Adams himself and interactive fiction god Steve Eric Meretzky, it was released by Infocom in 1984 for DOS and for...
The Hobbit
DOS1983 Beam Software
The Hound of Shadow
DOS1989 Eldritch Games