You'd be right. Flash backs of course to BBS homepage / door designs. Getting the -=[[UNIX]=- to look just right. Or the layers of ///FILES\\\ to flash. The graffiti style was beyond me, but the tables and sketches were very pleasurable time sinks.
I once saw a TUI adventure game that had windows - game scene, profile, comms, etc. It required a substantial screen size to really work well, but it was outstanding in brevity and communications. And no colors.
I once saw a TUI adventure game that had windows - game scene, profile, comms, etc. It required a substantial screen size to really work well, but it was outstanding in brevity and communications. And no colors.