Besides well known bsdgames, please someone suggest textual games for tty, shell environment only, preferably without any special or fancy libraries.

When I say textual games, I don't mean ASCII pictures or ANSII. I mean games with real sentences in a console, tables, formulae <--(look alike),

games which will make your boss believe you are doing a serious work, while you are deeply indulged in a tense adventurous game with good guesses to be made, correctly answering questions, entering coordinates, etc...

Thank you.

Here's one I've played and is interesting:
http://mipmip.org/adv770/
I think this is what you're talking about, right ?

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Yes! those kind of games, they can be amazingly entertaining with nothing but pure text in a terminal. Nothing against modern high graphic games which I don't play, but textual games can be highly entertaining as well, just in completely different way which suits me better.

I downloaded his precompiled binary which displays a beautifull game text in my console. There is a quite similar Adventure game in a basdgames package, both mention a Colossal Cave. I think this is a fork from the old game.

Must play this adv770 in a coming weekend, I didn't see yet how this version is improved or extended compared to Adventure from bsdgames package.

Play interactive fiction games.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...ractiveFiction

Play them with this:
http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Gargoyle

This is a good one to start with:
http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Photopia

Actually it is based on adventure, but different:
http://mipmip.org/adv770/faq.shtml#special

My personal favorite is Photopia by Adam Cadre. A truly magnificent world and very well done game. Actually most of Cadre's interactive fiction games are truly awesome. I also enjoyed Babel and Galatea. You should give them a try if you find them. More info here or to the xyzzy awards.

Best regards