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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Alternate names: IF, Text adventure

BBC 1986

C64 1988

BBC 1984

CPC 1987

9801 ? *

APF 19??

ST 1986

C64 1984

SPC 1986

PDP1 1972

A800 1986-06

OCS 1987
Note that despite the name, this is a very specific form of interactive fiction, not something that should be taken literally.
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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