So my buddy told me about this really indepth, awesome game, that's for free download.
It's called Dwarf Fortress.
It's made entirely out of ASCII.
You pretty much start with 7 dwarves, and create your own fortress.. Fending off attacks from wild animals, goblins, etc etc.
I'm still REALLY new at it, but there's a posted story of several people's adventures. They took turns controlling a single stronghold and wrote about it as if they were the dwarf. It's quite hilarious.