Let’s start off with a classic: text-based games. Long before Windows and GUI-based operating systems, text-based adventure games provided entertainment through compelling narratives and non ...

In honor of the 2012 Interactive Fiction contest we’ll be featuring text-based games in this week’s Free Game Friday roundup. Not all of this week’s games come from the competition ...

Everyone seems to love "retro" 8-bit video games, but it doesn't get much more retro than a text-based adventure. If you've never tried one before, or you're just bored and have a Mac nearby ...

If you’ve never played a text game, you should. Doing so is incredibly easy, and also free. And you certainly don’t need to worry about a fancy graphics card or your system specs” All 10 ...

Instead, it's designed exclusively for text-based games. Players will navigate choose-your-own-adventure titles with the ...

Popular text-based adventure game Lifeline was named Apple's App of the Week, and as a result, it's available to download for free for the first time since it launched in April of 2015.

Remember Zork? In 1977, a trio of MIT researchers created the first text-based adventure game for a DEC mainframe and eventually ported it to the earliest PCs. I discovered the minimalist game in ...

Enterprising gamers are formatting vintage text-based adventure games—at the time of this writing, the legendary Zork I-III and 1988’s less-legendary Mini-Zork—for the Kindle and other ...