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Star Arthur Densetsu I: Wakusei Mephius

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PC-8800 Series

FM-7

NEC PC-6000 Series

In the year 3826, the Galactic Federation is at war with Jamil, an enemy from outer space, and unarmed planets are being destroyed one after another by Jamil's vicious fleet. Meanwhile, Star Arthur Mirvac descends on the planet Mephius in search of the legendary sword Raysword to crush Jamil's ambitions...
This game is known for being a very early adventure game, and for releasing on three cassette tapes. It uses a both kana command input and cursor selection.

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Mio no Mystery Adventure

You get caught in the rain and hide in the mansion. Upon entry you hear "I've got a present for you - It's your death!" Now you got to solve puzzles, defeat devil, the master of the house and find a way out.

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Hadean Lands

Linux

Linux is a free and open-source (FOSS/FLOSS) Operating System. In a more precise and complex definition, Linux is an open-source OS kernel on which a large variety of Operating Systems (known as Linux distributions) are built.

Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

Point-and-click

Terminal City

What if you took 80s adventure games like Space Quest, crossed them with auto-runners like Canabalt and threw in a dash of Another World?

You'll need all your wits, cunning, and typing skills to make it in TERMINAL CITY, as you guide street-kid V-Loc on his quest to evade the evil Syndicate corpos and rescue his friends.

In a world of instant-deaths, no checkpoints and dead ends, how far will YOU get?

Warp Cinema

Warp Cinema is a bite-size text-parser adventure game made for Adventure Jam 2023 and takes about 10-15 minutes to play through.

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Simulator

Barrage

BBC Microcomputer System

Barrage is an artillery game for two players who take turns playing the game on the same computer. Each player controls a gun and has to shoot projectiles at the other. Both sides have 100 men, and the aim is to kill the all of the enemies' men. There are two cities on both sides of the screen, which have to be avoided from being hit as it would incur penalties otherwise. The landscape is generated for each new match, and they are terraformed by the craters caused by artillery hits.

Each player has to enter values with the keyboard for the angle and velocity of the shot while accounting for the wind speed and direction. Players with more than 35 men in the army will be asked to choose a delta angle and velocity which decide if shots will be spread out or fired in a small cluster. The number of shots taken depends on how many men the player has left.

The Zen of Kayaking

An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure game that begins as you set out with your newly acquired kayak one weekend. Created over 10 days by a team of two.

Role-playing (RPG)

Advanced Xoru

Whatever We Decide to Call this Game

Whatever We Decide to Call this Game is a text adventure game in which one finds themselves outside the doors of their new college with three tasks to accomplish - find a bathroom, enroll in classes, and get a parking sticker.

Redhawk

Commodore C64/128/MAX

Amstrad CPC

ZX Spectrum

Classic text adventure game, displayed as comic book, that users a parser with vocabulary to allow actions like walk, look, arrest, hit or using objects, where you can control two identities: Kevin Oliver - a human with all the human weaknesses; and Redhawk - a being capable of flight and incredible feats of strength.

You can choose to fight crime, increasing popularity and superhero status, or
lead a life of crime and ignore Redhawk's unpopularity and supervillain status.

Bael's Rock

Embark on a journey into the heart of an old-school text adventure game that beckons you into a world veiled in shadow and mystique. Here, your wits are your greatest weapon, and your keyboard, the tool to wield it.

Fortune and Glory

Fortune & Glory is a text-parser action RPG about leaving home to become a hero! Decide who you are as you explore an ailing world in a detailed retro-inspired style. Gain help from your personalities and their internal dialogue to solve puzzles and fight monsters in a realtime battle system.

text parser

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