Keyboard

Primarily when keyboard is unusual, but also for other cases where keyboard is the primary or only controller used (unless it is the only controller available on the platform).

Such as, Win3.1 and Win32/64 are often perceived as keyboard+mouse platforms, but there are games where only one of the controllers is actually used, or the other only intermittently.

Parent group

Controllers

Related group

Activities
Word input

Games by year

The first Keyboard video game was released in 1954.

Infocom, Usborne Publishing and Creative Computing published most of these games.

Platforms

MS-DOS		663
Apple II E		577
Linux		307
Tandy Coco		260
TRS-80		199
ZX Spectrum		181
C64		180
Windows		159
Memotech MTX		130
Ohio Scientific		125
Atari 400/800		108
Mac OS Classic		108
Amstrad PCW		78
Commodore PET		76
VIC-20		69
Amiga		67
COSMAC VIP		65
BBC		63
Atari ST		57
Amstrad CPC		46
Mac OS X		46
Win3.1		40
North Star Computers		38
Sol-20		35
Electron		34
MSX		33
custom		29
Dragon32		28
C16/Plus4		27
DEC PDP-1		27

Most common companies

Infocom	93
Usborne Publishing	86
Creative Computing	74
Sierra On-Line	55
Adventure International	46
Creative Computing Software	43
Level 9 Computing	37
Avalon Hill	36
Electronic Arts	35
RCA	33
The Learning Company	33
Softside	28
Tandy	28
Brøderbund	27
Continental Software	26