I had to download and install a special interpreter to run the games. They were encoded into a special format for the interpreter.
It sounds like you're describing "frotz" which most distros have in their repositories. It will allow you to play those old "Z-machine" games (Scott Adams, Zork, etc) as well as many new titles that continue to be created. Searching the web for "interactive fiction" will turn up a number of (almost always text-only) IF games that can be played via the console on Linux.
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