TechCrunch

Six awesome ASCII games you need to play

I’ve always admired ASCII graphics, mainly due to my predilection towards retro gaming and large pixels in general. Just as a game like Portal twists your ideas of space and makes you think ...
Engadget

Legendary ASCII game 'Dwarf Fortress' is coming to Steam

The 17-year-old classic Dwarf Fortress is considered a pioneer in gaming through its massive, highly interactive world, but it's a tough sell to modern gamers with its ASCII graphics and its absence ...
GameSpot

ASCII Game Series: Snake

This title and all in its series has a total of 5,000 Steam Achievements. However, this game falls into a genre of game known as "Achievement spam:" each of these Achievements are unlocked by trivial, ...
GameSpot

ASCII Game Series: Beginning

This title has 4,992 Steam Achievements. However, this game falls into a group of games known as "Achievement spam" games. Each of the Achievements is named "Pixel Element #xxxx", with some number ...
Kotaku

ASCII Attack

A Cold War super computer has gone rogue and is printing launch codes for a first strike. There is only one way to prevent nuclear Armageddon; enter the dot matrix, collect the codes, and defeat the ...
PC Magazine

7 Classic PC Games With ASCII Graphics

Way back in the olden days of the IBM PC platform, the capability for bitmapped graphics only came in the form of expensive add-on graphics cards; the cheapest graphics card you could get displayed ...
PC Gamer

Candies is an ASCII browser game about questing and candy

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Fancy a browser game that lets you accumulate candy for nix, build lollipop farms, taunt ASCII ...
Ars Technica

ASCII art + permadeath: The history of roguelike games

I still routinely play Angband. Although now days I'll willingly use tiles instead of ASCII. That game taught me how to use 10-key.
XDA Developers on MSN

This fun fan-made Terminal version of Chrome's dinosaur game uses ASCII to get the job done

Play Chrome's T. Rex game in your Terminal with Term-Rex - a charming ASCII platformer. Needs POSIX terminal, C++ compiler ...
Hackaday

ASCII Games, Chiptunes, Hacker Celebrities At Hackaday Prize Worldwide Berlin

Hackaday teamed up with the Vintage Computer Festival to have a Meetup last week. It was quite a party, with Berlin based chiptunes band Thunder.Bird and TheRyk using Commodore 64s and SID sound chip.
Kotaku

ASCII Wars

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from ASCII Wars Protect the servers. Locate the vulnerabilities. Exterminate the viruses. This fast paced strategy game lets you enter terminal commands from a ...