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.

The source code of every Infocom text adventure ... (ASCII) allowed them"—in particular those of the 1980s. He announced the GitHub uploads on Twitter earlier this week. The games were written ...

Enterprising gamers are formatting vintage text-based adventure games ... includes lovers of vintage games. And the ability to save and reload games using Amazon’s Whispernet is a nice feature.