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  2. List of text-based computer games - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Moonmist - Wikipedia

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    The game was released simultaneously for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, TRS-80, TI-99/4A, and Mac. It is Infocom's twenty-second game. Moonmist was re-released in Infocom's 1995 compilation The Mystery Collection, as well as the 1996 compilation Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces. [2] [3]

  4. Colossal Cave Adventure - Wikipedia

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    1977 (Crowther/Woods) Genre (s) Adventure, interactive fiction. Mode (s) Single-player. Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as Adventure or ADVENT) is a text-based adventure game, released in 1976 by developer Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. It was expanded upon in 1977 by Don Woods. In the game, the player explores a cave ...

  5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game) - Wikipedia

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    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 collecting and using a number of inventory items. The player has a limited variety of commands to observe, move about, and interact with the game's world, such ...

  6. Adventure game - Wikipedia

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    t. e. An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. [1] The genre 's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative -based media, such as literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of genres.

  7. 9:05 - Wikipedia

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    9:05 is an interactive fiction game developed by Adam Cadre in 2000. The story follows a man who wakes up and gets a call telling him to go to work, and it follows branching paths. The game is commonly used as a gateway to text adventure games because of its short length and overall simplicity and is used by English as a second language (ESL ...

  8. Interactive fiction - Wikipedia

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    Interactive fiction (IF) is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives, either in the form of Interactive narratives or Interactive narrations. These works can also be understood as a form of video game, [ 1 ...

  9. Wikipedia – The Text Adventure - Wikipedia

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    Mode (s) Single-player. Wikipedia: The Text Adventure is an indie interactive fiction browser game developed by the London -based Kevan Davis. It was released in 2017, and pulls data from Wikipedia to automatically generate a playable video game. [1] It was praised by the media for its unique idea and retro appearance, but criticized for the ...