The Wizard of Oz (1985 video game)

The Wizard of Oz is an illustrated interactive fiction game developed by and published by Windham Classics for the Apple II, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and MSX in 1985.

The game is a text adventure where players assume the role of Dorothy and interact with the characters, world, and objects from the books through commands.

II Computing said that "a good parser makes it easy to have believable dialogues" with the characters, and observed, "The on-screen illustrations are not flashy.

They utilize the Apple's graphics well, but in a way that appears more like a children's storybook than an epic cartoon novel.

described the game as "a good introduction to adventuring for any novice gamer," saying that "there's little danger of getting in a jam that defies the player's skill."