A group of games relied only on basic computer operating system features and were ported to a similar set of platforms often including UNIX, Linux, Windows, DOS, and Mac OS. Often, these games would be relatively easy to port due to having source code available. They most often use ASCII art and runs in a text terminal, although they would later get support for standalone windows and graphical tile sets. Popular games in this grouping are roguelikes and the Star Trek variants. This reason this pseudo-system grouping is introduced to this database is that playing these particular games on the different supported systems does not change the gameplay in a significant way.
BSD Trek Eric Allman Multi 1976 Colossal Cave Adventure Will Crowther Multi 1976 Rogue Ken Arnold Multi 1980 1 video Larn Noah Morgan Multi 1986 Nethack Multi 1987 1 video UMoria Multi 1987 Angband Multi 1990 Ancient Domains of Mystery Multi 1994 Ninvaders Multi 2003 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Multi 2006 AliensRL Multi 2007 Rescue Dog Nameless Algorithm Multi 2026
ocdgamer.rb:384:output_game_list(
12 games, mode:list, tag id:92, sortby:year,
url_arg_prefix:, output_list_selection:true)
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