These are kind of like "choose your own adventure" books: http://www.choiceofgames.com

This forum is a pretty good text-based MMORPG

Space Rangers has a lot of text adventure stuff in it, similar to those books. Then again, Space Rangers has a lot of EVERY genre new and old in it.

Thx, after checking all the links on this post, my preference kinda goes toward the oldies (just got a copy of Zork 1 on an abandonware site (I promise I'll buy my copy on GOG, but right now it's just for testing quickly what is it like (oh and I am already lost with the white house haha, guess I must be dumb) I don't know, it's more appealing to me with a black and white DOS screen :D

I did not know this genre before (that's not from my generation) and I must say it's just fantastic, I love how one needs to use his/her own imagination in order to progress through the game.

The Lone Wolf series is a good book. I heard it was made into an app, but I'm not sure. A googling around showed me this:

http://rpggeek.com/thread/496362/lone-wolf-gamebooks-on-seventh-sense-app

This seems great. Thank you I will check this as well (I have so many webpages opened right now makes me dizzy)
Thank you all for your great help and links, and good night as well (gotta go, it's late here).

Found one of the two or three recent exemples I was looking for. Text-based yet point'n'click though (as opposed to parser) :

http://www.bloomengine.com/cycles/

If you are going to be playing text adventures then you need to get yourself a good "interpreter" - basically the application you run the games in. Most interative fiction are written using one of a small set of "languages" and the interpretter you get from GOG is a fairly basic one.

I would recommend: Windows Frotz
Or:Gargoyle

Thanks Telika and brianhutchison.

The copy of Zork I found was with the some files and I just had to drag one of them toward the "DosBox" icon on my desktop to play to it. I'll download Frotz in case I find such games that require it. Thank you.

Icesus - http://www.icesus.org/Icesus/

BatMUD - http://www.bat.org/

http://www.mudconnect.com/

-> All the text you ever need in your life. I would highly recommend to try out MUD's.

Thanks a lot iippo, I will have a look at those in a few minutes.

The already mentioned Magnetic Scrolls games were at one time the high mark.
Likewise, the Zork series are amongst the best loved ones, also the rest of Infocom games..

But the real classics are the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams_(game_designer)]The games by Scott Adams.[/url]
Not only by Adventureland being the first one, but because they were so damn fine.
I have lots of fond memories from the Pirate Island and The Count. Trying to get by with Finnish-English dictionary.

Thanks a lot Jarmo. Does anyone know whether this genre of game has ever been used for a Dungeons and Dragons setting? I ask because the combination of the two could be fantastic (being quite close to a real PnP RPG).

Not to my knowledge, but several MUD's (Multi User Dungeons) shamelessly copied the rules and the setting.
(Almost as shamelessly as how D&D copied from Tolkien).

I used to play ShadowGate MUD the year stone and stick. At the time it was pretty roleplay intensive and the rules were quite AD&D's.

Certainly there are others, but if D&D is what interests you, ShadowGate might be worth a shot if its still anything like it used to be.

-Proper- roleplaying MUD's were rather hard to come by, ShadowGate was rare in that it actually had a decent amount of active players as well. But like I mentioned, I havent been it the scene for ages, so I am not up to the current situation.