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so magically ideas can stop being outdated

It is not magic. You just do not accept what outdated means and how something becomes outdated - or can become a trend again.

Text games are old-fashioned and technolgical obsolete. They are not popular. Most modern "text-based" games do feature some kind of graphics, and you will not find major game studios publishing text games. This is not an opinion or an agenda, this is an observation.

Can text-games become popular and thus in fashion again? For that, they would need to become mainstream, and that is very unlikely. Could have happened with ai chat bots, but the successful experimental games using that tech also used modern graphics.

Text-games are a nieche idea and even in that nieche, those text-games often feature illustrations and a modern user interface. Olde text games also had a text interface. The modern text games usually have a hyperlink interface.