Text-based game

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Text-based game
A text game or text-based game is a video game that uses text characters instead of bitmap or vector graphics Text-based games were a popular form of interactive fiction in the 1980s1
Contents
1 Overview
2 MUD
3 Roguelike
4 See also
5 References
Overview
Text games are typically easy to write and require less processing power than games with graphics, and thus were more common from 1970 to 1990 However, terminal emulators are still in use today, and people continue playing MUDs multi-user dungeon and exploring interactive fiction Many beginning programmers still create these types of games to familiarize themselves with a programming language,2 and contests even now are held on who can finish programming a roguelike within a short time period, such as seven days3
While many of the earliest computer games Adventure, Zork relied on language parsing due to the command line-driven, teletype-terminal mainframe environments in which they were developed, the phrase "text-based" is taken to refer not to the user input though generally keyboard-based but rather to exclusive use text-based game, text-based games, text-based game creator, text-based game scrolls, text-based games online Text-based game