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Retro

Featuring aesthetics, gameplay, or themes reminiscent of classic video games. Often characterized by pixel art, chiptune music, or mechanics popularized in earlier gaming eras.

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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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for Windows tagged Retro and Text based (25 results)

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GIF
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REXPaint
Powerful and user-friendly ASCII/ANSI art editor.
Kyzrati
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Ansizalizer
An image-to-text art terminal ui
Zebbeni
GIF
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Weave 4
A utility for modding ZZT games.
Mean Girls Games
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TAB - Thinbasic Adventure Builder
Text Adventure Creator for PC Windows XP and above. Tool/Utility for making Interactive Fiction (32/64bit)
catventure
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action_Typewriter_Advanced
Typewriter-style text animation, with sound management and word shaking.
Nixilliscyte
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Minecraft Server Manager
A .bat file for an easily startable Minecraft server
Saasu
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Terminal Micro Engine | A tiny DOS-style game engine
A tiny game engine to make terminal DOS-like games
TekEngine Audio Tools
Run in browser
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Authors Passage
A new species of writing software
Kasper Hviid
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SIGNpad
Simple fun programming language + editor
kollumos
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GOONIES - CPC
$2
Moteur de jeux d’aventure textuelle pour Amstrad CPC
silentplacesgames
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UNSCII-Ed
$4.99
UNSCII and ASCII editor and converter
Vorvek
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Now Playing Terminal
$5
Transform your music into mesmerizing ASCII art in Command Prompt!
MissAlyKatt
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MythOS
Text-Based Adventure Engine and Programming Language
geojax
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charEdit v1.2
A windows and browser-based ASCII art editor.
Aim studios
Run in browser
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FFXI Steam Playtime Tracking Fixer
A small tool that makes Steam track your FFXI playtime.
Sebastian Scaini
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CMD Image Displayer
​Displays images in the cmd
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GIF
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MATE-Reawakened
Command Prompt based Text-Game Engine
Mas
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Namba-X (A.I Support Unit) (MSX)
Experience Artificial Intelligence as 1987 Imagined It.
PYXS Software
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Surplus OS Ultimate
A Batch (Windows Command Prompt) operating system
The Shaggy39 Studio
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JARtoEXE Builder
Builds EXE from a Jar Tool
OnStarPrograms
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aldan
computing as it could have been
ortfero
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OTTE - Text Editor -
Ocano
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SealDeck
Josiah D. Widener
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IBarPad Editor
The basest text editor experience.
I-Bar Games
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Fíltrame
FiltroExcel
Theofren
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