Text art is a common name for art made using typographical characters, the most common example being ASCII art. ASCII art is graphics made using characters from the ASCII character set. Several other character sets have been used, some of which includes 'semigraphical' characters such as colored boxes, circles, etc. An example of a character set that includes semigraphical characters is the PETSCII set from the Commodore 64.
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Star Trek Mike Mayfield Sigma 1971 2 videos C x 3 14 logs BSD Trek Eric Allman UNIX 1976 2 logs Rogue Michael Toy Multi 1980 1 video 36 logs Tetris AcademySoft DOS 1984 1 logs Nethack Multi 1987 1 video 57 logs Star Fleet I: The War Begins! Cygnus Amiga 1987 2 videos 15 logs Angband Multi 1990 35 logs Ninvaders Multi 2003 1 logs Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Multi 2006 7 logs Dwarf Fortress Tarn Adams Win 2006 2 logs AliensRL Multi 2007 1 logs chickhack C64 2009 1 logs Brogue Brian Walker MAC 2009 21 logs Brogue Brian Walker Win 2010 6 videos 34 logs Vicious Orcs Jeff Lait Win 2011 8 logs Netpack Royal Paw Win 2011 13 logs Forays into Norrendrin Win 2012 1 video 23 logs DoomRL ChaosForge Win 2013 2 videos 14 logs SanctuaryRPG Win 2014 2 logs The Ground Gives Way BtS Win 2014 1 video 11 logs TIS-100 Zachtronics Win 2015 4 logs Superhot Superhot Team XB1 2016 2 videos C 4 logs Frog Fractions 2 Win 2016 1 video 2 logs Cogmind Grid Sage Games Win 2018 1 video 4 logs Digiloi Dr. TerrorZ C64 2018 1 logs
Star Trek (SDS SIgma)
Rogue (Multi-platform Computer Games)
Nethack (Multi-platform Computer Games)
Star Fleet I: The War Begins! (Amiga)
Brogue (Windows)
Forays into Norrendrin (Windows)
DoomRL (Windows)
The Ground Gives Way (Windows)
Superhot (Xbox One)
Frog Fractions 2 (Windows)
Cogmind (Windows)
