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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.

M denotes the game is a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon).

On Personal Computers

P denotes a play-by-e-mail game played on-line
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. The mainframe adventures page at Adventureland, while uneven in its coverage, is nonetheless preeminent in its documentation of these early games.

See also

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