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The following list of text-based games is not to be considered an authoritative, comprehensive listing of all such games; rather, it is intended to represent a wide range of game styles and genres presented using the text mode display and their evolution across a long period.
Colossal Cave Adventure is considered to be the first adventure game, and indeed the name of the genre adventure game is derived from the title. [14] As text-based adventure games reached their peak in popularity in the late 1970s and 1980s, [ 13 ] notable text-based adventure titles were released by various developers, including Zork [ 14 ...
A reviewer for Next Generation scored the compilation a perfect five out of five stars. He praised the "functionally comprehensive" selection of Infocom games and the six Interactive Fiction Competition games, estimated the total playtime at 1,200 hours minimum, and said the gameplay "represents the pinnacle of well written, interactive fiction."
Wander is text adventure written by Peter Langston in 1974. It is one of the earliest text adventure video games in existence, predating Colossal Cave Adventure. [1] The game was originally coded in BASIC [2] on a mainframe computer with multiple databases to create the worlds that formed the game. [3]
Aura: Fate of the Ages is an adventure-genre computer game created by Canadian studio Streko-Graphics Inc. and published by The Adventure Company.In 2007, Streko-Graphics Inc. released the second chapter, Aura II: The Sacred Rings, which continues the story of the first game.
Zyll is a text-based role-playing video game published by IBM for the IBM PCjr in 1984. It was written by Marshal Linder and Scott Edwards, two IBM employees, and marketed as an adventure game . [ 1 ]
Adventure is a series of fourteen text adventure and graphic adventure games primarily written by Scott Adams and published by Adventure International. [1] [2] Some of the games were first published by the TRS-80 Software Exchange in 1978-79 before Adventure International was formed. [3] The games were initially released as purely text adventures.
Published by Adventure International, this text-based adventure game was one of many from Scott Adams. Gameplay involved moving from location to location, picking up any objects found there, and using them somewhere else to unlock puzzles. Commands took the form of verb and noun, e.g. "Take Shovel".