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Based on The Lord of the Rings. Star Trader. 1982. Bretten Au, Kevin Ryan, Kent Beck, Ron Lumsden, and James Walters. A space game originally hosted on University of Oregon 's mainframe computer. Avon. 1983. Jonathan Partington. Shakespearean adventure game originally hosted on Cambridge University 's Phoenix mainframe.
The original text-based game is effectively presented in the top-left window, and additional graphical interface elements added for the anniversary edition. The Hitchhiker's Guide is a text adventure game in which the player, in the role of Arthur Dent, solves a number of puzzles to complete various objectives to win the game. This includes ...
Single-player. Star Trek is a text-based strategy video game based on the Star Trek television series (1966–69) and originally released in 1971. In the game, the player commands the USS Enterprise on a mission to hunt down and destroy an invading fleet of Klingon warships. The player travels through the 64 quadrants of the galaxy to attack ...
A map of Pirate Adventure world by Aaron A. Reed from 50 Years of Text Games project. Published by Adventure International and the second game of the series, after Adventureland, this text-based adventure game was one of many adventure games created by Scott Adams, [1] in this case based on his wife Alexis's ideas. [2]
Rogue (video game) Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman with later contributions by Ken Arnold. Rogue was originally developed around 1980 for Unix -based minicomputer systems as a freely distributed executable. It was later included in the Berkeley ...
1978. Genre (s) Interactive fiction. Adventureland is a text adventure video game for microcomputers, [1] released by Scott Adams in 1978. The game has no plot [2] but simply involves searching for thirteen lost artifacts in a fantasy setting. Its success led Adams to form Adventure International, [3] which went on to publish thirteen similar ...
Dunnet (video game) Dunnet. (video game) Not to be confused with Dustnet. Dunnet is a surreal, cyberpunk [1] text adventure written by Ron Schnell, based on a game he wrote in 1982. [2] The name is derived from the first three letters of dungeon and the last three letters of ARPANET. [citation needed] It was first written in Maclisp for the ...
v. t. e. A text game or text-based game is an electronic game that uses a text-based user interface, that is, the user interface employs a set of encodable characters, such as ASCII, instead of bitmap or vector graphics. All text-based games have been well documented since at least the 1960s, when teleprinters were interlaced with mainframe ...