Play Racter Online
You type into the void, and this old DOS AI spits back bizarre poetry and half-formed riddles—like arguing with a drunk philosopher who keeps changing the subject.
Racter came out in 1985 as part of the MS-DOS Classic Games collection, developed by the Institute for New Media. It was a strange little text-based program for its time, one of those early experiments in artificial conversation that felt more like a digital curiosity than a traditional game. You didn't play it so much as interact with it, typing on a blank screen and waiting to see what the machine would say back.
You control nothing but your own words; the entire experience is built around typing statements or questions and reading Racter's generated replies. There is no main objective, no win state, no points to score. Its signature mechanics are its nonsensical prose generation, its tendency to respond with poetic or absurd non sequiturs, and the complete lack of any guided narrative. The pacing is entirely self-directed, and the difficulty lies in finding any coherent thread in its ramblings. It feels less like playing a game and more like poking a sleeping robot to see what nonsense falls out of its head.
Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".
Download Racter ROM
You can download this ROM to play Racter offline using an MS-DOS emulator (Top Emulators).
*This ROM is provided for backup and educational purposes only.
