Computing old timers remember a world where computer games were decidedly lo fi. Linux Links has a list of the 21 best open source ASCII games, with screenshots and descriptions, for your nostalgic pleasure.
Computing old timers remember a world where computer games were decidedly lo fi. Linux Links has a list of the 21 best open source ASCII games, with screenshots and descriptions, for your nostalgic pleasure.
0verkill is one of my favourite ASCII games. I’ve hosted a few tournaments and it’s always funny, specially when you start adding bots.
As for RPGs, I fondly remember playing a lot of AlphaMan on DOS. There was a lot of humour, superhuman powers and various items to keep you entertained forever, basically. And it was approachable as well. Definitely recommend giving it a go.
• http://mutant-future.wikia.com/wiki/AlphaMan
• http://www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonware-game.php?gid=2102
Hello. I’ve never played 0verkill, but I am sure it’s a great game. Gotta check it now. THanks
Missing so many greats. Some of these got me through college back in the VAX VMS days too.
– Trek/NetTrek – awesome
– ATC – excellent
– Moria – set the standard after Rogue, Angband which they mentioned is also good and a decendent of Moria.
– gomoku – playing go in a terminal was fun and not boring like most board games
– hunt – multiplayer on terms
– phantasia – great story inside the adventure
Many of these are often found in the BSDGames package in most distros.
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games
http://techtinkering.com/2009/08/11/my-top-10-classic-text-mode-bsd…
Edited 2016-08-30 02:03 UTC
I remember playing “door” games for BBS systems, they were all ansi text. Trade wars was one I remember best. I enjoyed that it was multiplayer and that we could play on teams. The world was persistent and each day you could build up your bases and expand your territory. I thought it was pretty neat back in the day.
The list that I have seen seems like the Text games that were on the author’s software list as a kid. However it seems to be missing quite a few. Door Games should be on the list, as well Muds (some were visual such as MajorMud) Also way to many of them listed were Rogue Clones (Including NetHack)
I enjoy playing nethack on my work’s Windows phone. (Using ssh to my home pc.)