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..
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games
75platforms
Alternate names: IF, Text adventure
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The first video game about Interactive fiction was released in 1975.
Infocom, Level 9 Computing and Zenobi Software has published most of these games
Note that despite the name, this is a very specific form of interactive fiction, not something that should be taken literally.
Parent group
AdventureRelated sites
Platforms
| ZX Spectrum |  | 412 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS-DOS | | 366 | |
| C64 | | 226 | |
| Linux | | 176 | |
| Mac OS Classic | | 152 | |
| Amstrad CPC | | 118 | |
| Tandy Coco | | 117 | |
| Apple II E | | 98 | |
| Atari ST | | 88 | |
| Amiga | | 77 | |
| BBC | | 55 | |
| Atari 400/800 | | 48 | |
| Amstrad PCW | | 43 | |
| TRS-80 | | 37 | |
| C128 | | 35 | |
| Commodore PET | | 34 | |
| custom | | 33 | |
| BeOS | | 33 | |
| Coleco Adam | | 25 | |
| ZX Spectrum 128 | | 24 | |
| C16/Plus4 | | 22 | |
| Electron | | 19 | |
| Ohio Scientific | | 18 | |
| MSX | | 17 | |
| Memotech MTX | | 16 | |
| Tatung Einstein | | 13 | |
| NEC PC8801 | | 12 | |
| VIC-20 | | 11 | |
| Oric | | 11 | |
| Apple IIGS | | 11 |