Mastodawn

I wish I could use the DOS / IBM PC style smileys in terminal games. They were, in fact, designed for "ansi art" style fixed width character games. However, there isn't the convention in fonts that it should fit into a single character with a monospace font, so you can't use this or a lot of the lovely characters that DOS games would use.

Also look at them! They have such nice, minimalist character!

And yes, they WERE intended for games: https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/790/the-ibm-smiley-character-turns-30

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Nazo

@cwebber I still remember playing several DOS games that used these. Most were from before my time, but they were still fun. I think my favorite was MegaZeux, which was more or less based on ZZT/SuperZZT (which I had played before it. They had their own OOP language for making custom games.

Technically MegaZeux is still around.

I'm not sure though, some of these things still have terminal versions for modern systems I think. I think they must be using something that still works? Then again, most use SDL, GL, or etc, so I'm really not sure I guess... Maybe there really isn't. I just am not sure.