Interactive fiction
Game genre theme
A type of adventure game where the game world and player input is described using text. Such as "You are in a hallway. There is a key on the floor", ">get key", ">use silver key on door", ">turn valve", ">say hello", etc..
4553
games
96platforms
Alternate names: IF, Text adventure
CPC 1986
SWTC 2019-04-12
SPC 1990
VIC 1981
OCS 1987
IIE 1983
BBC 1984
IIE 1985
C64 198?
TRS 1981
C64 1985
BBC 1982
Note that despite the name, this is a very specific form of interactive fiction, not something that should be taken literally.
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Game genre
MUD
Games by year
The first Interactive fiction video game was released on December 3, 1971.
Infocom, Adventure International and Level 9 Computing published most of these games.
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Platforms
ZX Spectrum | 628 | ||
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Apple II E | 493 | ||
C64 | 451 | ||
MS-DOS | 435 | ||
Amstrad CPC | 281 | ||
Linux | 201 | ||
BBC | 191 | ||
Tandy Coco | 190 | ||
Atari 400/800 | 168 | ||
Mac OS Classic | 148 | ||
Atari ST | 122 | ||
TRS-80 | 108 | ||
Amiga | 108 | ||
NEC PC9801 | 89 | ||
Dragon32 | 68 | ||
C16/Plus4 | 67 | ||
Electron | 63 | ||
Amstrad PCW | 56 | ||
Commodore PET | 45 | ||
MSX | 45 | ||
custom | 39 | ||
VIC-20 | 38 | ||
NEC PC8801 | 37 | ||
Oric | 37 | ||
MICRO 7 - FM7 | 35 | ||
BeOS | 33 | ||
C128 | 31 | ||
Coleco Adam | 25 | ||
TI99 | 24 | ||
Ohio Scientific | 22 |
Most common companies
Infocom | 347 | |
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Adventure International | 187 | |
Level 9 Computing | 120 | |
Rainbird | 81 | |
Zenobi Software | 71 | |
Starcraft | 69 | |
NEUC | 69 | |
SoftSide | 55 | |
Channel 8 Software | 54 | |
Melbourne House | 43 | |
Topologika | 42 | |
CRL | 35 | |
Choice of Games | 35 | |
Falsoft | 27 | |
Activision | 27 |