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..
4504
games
95platforms
Alternate names: IF, Text adventure
ARCH 1990
DOS 1986
CPC 1987
C64 1984
C64 1987
SPC 1985
C64 1986
DOS 1987
IIE 1985-10
BBC 1984
IIE 1982
IIE 1981
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 | 627 | ||
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Apple II E | 493 | ||
MS-DOS | 435 | ||
C64 | 433 | ||
Amstrad CPC | 280 | ||
Linux | 201 | ||
Tandy Coco | 189 | ||
BBC | 180 | ||
Atari 400/800 | 168 | ||
Mac OS Classic | 148 | ||
Atari ST | 122 | ||
TRS-80 | 109 | ||
Amiga | 108 | ||
NEC PC9801 | 88 | ||
C16/Plus4 | 67 | ||
Electron | 62 | ||
Dragon32 | 61 | ||
Amstrad PCW | 55 | ||
MSX | 45 | ||
Commodore PET | 44 | ||
custom | 39 | ||
NEC PC8801 | 37 | ||
Oric | 37 | ||
VIC-20 | 35 | ||
MICRO 7 - FM7 | 35 | ||
BeOS | 33 | ||
C128 | 31 | ||
Coleco Adam | 25 | ||
TI99 | 24 | ||
Ohio Scientific | 22 |