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B denotes a BBS door game played on-line B denotes a BBS door game played on-line

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On Mainframe Computers

Years listed are those in which the game is believed to have originally appeared. Often these games were continually modified and played as a succession of versions for years after their initial posting.

On Personal Computers

B denotes a BBS door game played on-line 1 denotes a 1st prize placing in the annual Interactive Fiction Competition. 1~ denotes a 1st prize placing in one of the two categories in the segregated-by-programming-language 1st annual Interactive Fiction Competition, a policy discontinued the following year.

The Interactive Fiction Archive currently contains a far more comprehensive list of text adventure games and related materials, while the Tribute to Text-Mode Games site contains a great deal of information on and downloads of games that use text for illustrative rather than descriptive purposes.

See also

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