Ever wonder what the PC games of 2012 would be like if they were text adventures? Of course not, no one in their right mind would ever wonder that.

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From old-school point-and-click classics like Broken Sword to modern choice-driven narratives, we've collected all the best adventure games on PC.

Pirate’s Adventure was a text adventure launched on a variety of early PC platforms in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Players used two-word, verb/object commands to navigate a fantasy land ...

Text adventure games like Zork naturally did well on the early IBM PC, but many other titles went beyond mere descriptive text, choosing to depict illustrations using only ASCII characters.

Some of the earliest PC games were text adventures but they were beaten out by graphics technology. Then, in the early 1990s, as FMV advanced we got our first wave of interactive movies.

Play an ‘old-school’ adventure game. Mac OS X Hints By Macworld staff, SEP 29, 2005 5:00 pm PDT. ... hard drives, or anything resembling OS X, we had text-based computer games.

From the gameplay to the graphics to the insane bosses, developer Yacht Club Games purposefully designed Shovel Knight as a love letter to the 8-bit adventure games of yesteryear. But best of all ...

Text adventures. Point-and-clicks. Infinity Engine. We round up all the games you should've played back when you had 64MB of SDRAM.

Younger readers will just take things like YouTube walkthroughs, or even sites like GameFAQs, for granted, but old heads will remember days when finding their way through a video game was hard ...

The genre of text adventure games started with Colossal Cave Adventure from 1976, widely considered the first interactive text-based computer game, by Will Crowther and Don Woods. Through commands ...