Are there any websites that will allow you to play text based only games?

I don’t know of any such website, but I would suggest that you try some old Atari emulators, you could no doubt find plenty of text based games that way.

I would need an example. I’m aware of text adventure games, but they require a lot more than just hitting ‘Enter’ or arrow keys.

Atari systems were at the front in terms of graphics and sound; you’d find far more games based on that than text. Either way, they weren’t web based.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8P37Bv507k&feature=related
Something similar to this.

How about this place?
http://www.textadventures.co.uk/

Thanks! I’ll look into those.

There’s Frotz for iPhone/iPad. Maybe they have a site, too.

It helps if you google them by name.

There is a text-based MMO (or is it a MUD?) called Moral Decay.

Here’s quite a few of the old school Infocom adventure games online for free, including the Zork series, and hitchiker’s guide to the galaxy.

There is star wars in command promt, I can remember the link if you want, it runs off a telnet server.

Last I checked, Zork is a free download.

Yes. Quite a few. A lot of the old Infocom text games have been put online for free. For example, there’s zork. I’m sure you could find HHGTTG and a few others if you googled around a bit.