Released in 2004, The Dreamhold is one of the newer games on this list, but it’s a great place to start because it features something old-school text games never bothered with: A tutorial.The ...

Text adventure games like Zork naturally did well on the early IBM PC, but many other titles went beyond mere descriptive text, choosing to depict illustrations using only ASCII characters.

Zork was the first game made by the great Infocom, and one that would influence an entire genre. Inspired by the example of Colossal Cave Adventure, the first text adventure to gain any kind of ...

Of course, text adventures were giving way to graphics games in any case. "Shooters" like Castle Woflenstein became the game of choice. Natural language parsing, advanced as it was, was still ...

The Ghost of Video Games Past is a little weird. Even with its improved graphics, the 2013 version of Spelunky retained both the charm and frustration of the original.

Previous games for the Apple II and other home computers were text-only, like a choose-your-own-adventure book in game form. No programs existed to accommodate the addition of graphics, writes MIT ...

Video game graphics have evolved quickly in the last few decades, ... and it might have required command to be typed in like a standard text adventure, but it was remarkable for its time.

To find the game, on a desktop computer, in Google Search, search for the terms "text game" or "text adventure." Once you've searched the terms above, initialize the game with the Dev Console.

Before video games could get graphic, text-based adventures imagined the future of literature. Since their earliest beginnings, video games have pushed the visual capabilities of computers, but ...

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It wasn't until 1983, though, that the genre received its first kick in the pants. IBM approached the fledging company, now renamed Sierra On-Line, with an offer of $700,000 to create a game that ...