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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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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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tagged Retro and Text based (26 results)

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REXPaint
Powerful and user-friendly ASCII/ANSI art editor.
Kyzrati
ANSIZALIZER
Image-to-Text Art converter
Zebbeni
Warsim's Generator Toolbox
Just the copious proc gen tools used in Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
Huw2k8
engine.lol
a tiny gamemaking tool for collage-based worlds (that is a game in itself)
chia
Run in browser
Minecraft Server Manager
A .bat file for an easily startable Minecraft server
Saasu
ASCII Engine: Image Visualizer
Convert Images to ASCII Artworks in Seconds!
diVISION+
Run in browser
TAB - Thinbasic Adventure Builder
Text Adventure Creator for PC Windows XP and above. Tool/Utility for making Interactive Fiction (32/64bit)
catventure
Authors Passage
A new species of writing software
Kasper Hviid
SIGNpad
Simple fun programming language + editor
kollumos
Quiver
$5
A tool bundle for Quill!
KeyPOPS
GIF
the Dumb Paint Tool
The Terminal ASCII Photoshop
ceccopierangiolieugenio
Run in browser
Now Playing Terminal
$5
Transform your music into mesmerizing ASCII art in Command Prompt!
MissAlyKatt
action_Typewriter_Advanced
$2.40
Typewriter-style text animation, with sound management and word shaking.
Nixilliscyte
MythOS
Text-Based Adventure Engine and Programming Language
geojax
GIF
MATE-Reawakened
Command Prompt based Text-Game Engine
Mas
charEdit v1.2
A windows and browser-based ASCII art editor.
Aim studios
Run in browser
FFXI Steam Playtime Tracking Fixer
A small tool that makes Steam track your FFXI playtime.
Sebastian Scaini
Wikinator
THE MOST EPIC WIKI MAKER EVER
Jn567
Run in browser
Surplus OS Ultimate
A Batch (Windows Command Prompt) operating system
The Shaggy39 Studio
JARtoEXE Builder
Builds EXE from a Jar Tool
OnStarPrograms
EDIT.BAS
A text editor written in Altair 8K BASIC.
~vidak
Osmiuto Glitch
Crear historias interactivas con un efecto glitch basado en el lenguaje original de Osmiuto con un diseño diferente.
layionellmendez
Run in browser
OTTE - Text Editor -
Ocano
CMD Image Displayer
​Displays images in the cmd
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SealDeck
Josiah D. Widener
SMS Master Blaster!
$9.99
The Ultimate SMS Prank Tool
Kevin Loring
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