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Game » consists of 5 releases. Released April 1976
The heirless King Ardashir of the Magocratic Kingdom of Persis is falling ill, and before dying intends to name a wizardly successor based on the outcome of a tournament to the death. You play as an urchin entering the tournament unarmed and outclassed.
It's time to get back underground
Diamaze is an ASCII adventure/strategy game released for MS-DOS in 1990.
Take on the role of Poseidon as he travels The Underworld in search of the fabled Dark Helmet of Hades.
There is a game that is hidden inside of every modern Apple Computer as well as most Linux machines. A classic text based adventure in the spirit of Colossal Cave and Zork.
A Japanese text adventure created by Hideki Akiyama and Suguho Takahashi. The title was released in ASCII's 1982 issue of "Yearly Ah-SKI!" and is considered to be the very first Japanese developed adventure game.
West of House. You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
A text adventure originally created in 1979 on a Cambridge University mainframe computer.
The Cottage (originally released under the Swedish name Stugan) is a Swedish humorous text adventure in the vein of Zork. It was originally released on mainframes in 1978, followed by a home computer release by SPCS in 1986.
Gun Fight, also known as Western Gun, is a 1975 arcade shooter. Set in the Wild West, Western Gun was the first on-foot shooter, introduced human combat, was the first open-world action-adventure video game, and the first real-time tactical cover shooter. Gun Fight was also the first microprocessor video game.
An interactive fiction game / interactive fiction creation utility pre-dating the release of Colossal Cave Adventure.
The first 3D flight simulator game, released by Sega in 1970. It was an electro-mechanical arcade game, using video projection to display a 3D game world on screen. It features free-roaming, first-person flight shooting gameplay. It was the first flight simulator game, the earliest first-person shooter, the first open-world game, and the first action-adventure game.
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