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- The player takes on the role of a wagon leader guiding a group of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley on the Oregon Trail via a covered wagon in the year 1848.
- Empire is a turn-based 4X wargame for up to 100 players. The game world is made up out of sectors on a hexagonal grid with a designation (agricultural, industrial, etc.) The player must take control of them to receive resources which in turn (after processing) are used to produce new army units of various types. A civilian and slave population is employed to produce and manufacture goods. A technology level determines the type of units can be produced. Issued commands are processed for all players at a given interval, typically once a day. In "Blitz" games updates are more frequent (e.g. 10 minutes). The game was expanded on by various authors to include more unit types.
- The player moves through a series of connected caves, arranged as the vertices of a dodecahedron, as they hunt a monster named the Wumpus.
- A text based adventure game where the player must type in command words to explore a cave that holds treasure along with puzzles to solve along the quest.
- Combat features 27 games in one, each are all variations on the tank, biplane, and jet gameplay.
- A person explores a vast underground complex to retrieve various rare items.
- Many years ago, the last known descendant of the Apple family disappeared without a trace, leaving the ancestral manor house deserted atop windswept Apple Peak. Rumor has it that the source of the family's once great power was a magical focus, shaped like a golden apple, and that it still lies hidden within the subterranean labyrinth, beneath Apple Manor.
- Maze Craze is an two player racing/puzzle game. One player controls a Cop, and the other controls a criminal, the aim is to reach the exit of the maze before the other player. Each maze is randomly generated.
- The game involves the search for thirteen lost artifacts in a fantasy setting.
- The player controls a square avatar whose quest is to explore an open-ended environment to find a magical chalice and return it to the golden castle. Three dragons and an item-stealing bat roam the castle as well.
- Superman must repair the bridge in Metropolis that has been destroyed by Lex Luthor, capture Luthor and his criminal underlings, enter a phonebooth to turn back into Clark Kent and then return to the Daily Planet in the shortest possible time.
- The player receives quests from Lord British to kill a succession of ten increasingly difficult monsters. The majority takes place in a dungeon. The player can visit a shop to purchase food and equipment and view the player's statistics.
- A fantasy action game in which the player ventures into the titular Doom Castle in search of treasure, weapons and monsters. After a successful run the player must also still escape the castle alive.
- The objective of the game is to take the helm of a supertanker and navigate the vessel from the North Pacific into the port of Valdez, Alaska, a journey of approximately 62 miles (100 km).
- After having discovered an ancient tablet at an archaeological dig and spending the last decade trying to translate it with the help of the Necronomicon and other diabolical incunabula, the game's protagonist has finally succeeded in unlocking its secrets and has descended upon the city of Yaddith, the ancient home of the Elder Ones. In order to prevent their return in fifteen days when the stars are right, the Eye of Kadath has to be found to invoke the powers of the Elder Ones and destroy the gate between worlds in order to save all of mankind from their reign of terror.
- Embark on a quest for the amulet of Yendor in the Dungeons of Doom! Magical items help you, the hero, to overcome the increasingly powerful monsters. Find the amulet to break the spell to enable an ascend to freedom.
- Told in second person, you play an AFGNCAAP (an Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally-Ambiguous Adventure Person) who begins in a serene setting, a house nestled in a thick forest. But your adventure really begins when you discover that the house leads to an expansive dungeon of forgotten lore and you must recover it's treasures from a tricky thief.
- Text-based adventure game inspired by the cult classic British television show _"Prisoner, The" (1967)_, about a former spy who is abducted and sent to a resort-themed "prison" where his captors attempt to get him to reveal why he resigned from his classified job. The game takes place on "The Island," where the player travels from building to building, each hosting a metaphorical quest in which the player's creative thinking skills are tested. Players demonstrating individual thinking eventually gain access to the Island's "Caretaker," and their ensuing conversation (using a language parser) can lead to the player's freedom.
- Your job is to complete several quests and gather special stones to defeat the evil wizard, Mondain.
- Similar to Zork (1977) (which was released on the VAX mainframe not long before Acheton's original appearance), Acheton is a fantasy treasure hunt set in a claustrophobic dungeon. It boasts over 400 rooms and 200 objects, thereby making it much bigger than Zork. As with many games of this kind, most time is spent exploring the environment and solving item-based puzzles. Everything is described solely with plain text and the player interacts with the game by typing in phrases that describe their desired action, e.g. "take bottle". It also features a help function with graded hints.
- An adventurer undertakes dangerous quests against numerous enemies to earn riches and experience
- A man must find and seduce women in the fictional city of Lost Vagueness.
- In this arcade game, you must help a frog cross a highway and a river while avoiding obstacles so he can get to his home safely.
- Defend the human population from swarms of attacking aliens.
- Your space fighter, the HELICON VII, is the only craft equipped to invade the Martian Headquarters deep within the Caverns of Mars and sabotage the Martian defense system by activating their deadly fusion bomb.
- A text adventure, a sequel to the classic Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (1980). Once again, the game is set in the Great Underground Empire, but this time the main goal is to face off against the titular wizard.
- The gateway to the New York Rocket Field is your first step of a space voyage in which you may choose one of three career paths to follow, here at the dawn of the interstellar Empire. Homesteaders must find a hospital planet on which to farm, raise a family and conquer the environment. Miners must find a high-density planet in a search for material wealth. Missionaries seek out populated planets to preach to the masses. Each path into the space frontier has its dangers, and a misstep may have bloody consequences.