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These were probably before most of our times, but I definitely played a lot of other text based games during the 90-00's. For example the classic ship trading game where you are buying/selling cannons, food, men etc. and fighting while traveling to different ports (there were may variations of this game type).

Also during the MUD era, I played a lot of actual MUD, then some Star Trek variations where you have a whole big crew piloting a ship, a Doom type arena shooter game, etc.

For a short time there were a lot of different text games coming out.



In the early 1980s one of the "killer apps" for the Apple ][ in schools was a text game (with occasional 40x40 lowres graphics) called "Lemonade Stand" (itself based on an earlier mainframe game) in which competing lemonade stands would make decisions on how much lemonade to make, what to charge for it, and how much to spend in advertising. We used to play it in class with one computer for the class and the class broken up into groups of 3 or 4 students who each ran a stand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Stand


Played a internet flash version of this in a class 20 years or so later. Coolmathgames or something.

Found it. It has been updatrd since. https://www.coolmathgames.com/0-lemonade-stand


I'm working on a MUD myself https://github.com/DanteFalzone0/mudnix

Progress has stalled because of the demands of my day job but you can try out the latest (limited, pre-alpha) version of the game here: https://dantefalzone0.github.io/games/mudnix/



Elite on the C64 was famous for its then outstanding vector graphics, but it actually was quite a good (space) ship trading game.


Utopia the online game was big for a while. Is still running but not a lot of people play it. You get a province in a country with random teammates and have to work together to expand, manage diplomacy with other countries, fight wars or decide when to surrender, vote for a ruler etc.


I still play BSD games, Slashem and Trek,

On the ship trading game, it was Taipei.




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