I'm wondering if it's possible to run graphics games in terminal as in DOS?

There's sixel [0] to display pics in text terminals. Also apparently the kitty terminal has a custom protocol to blit graphics on text terminals too [1].

There's a library with some impressive demos called "notcurses" if you are curious what kind of graphics can be displayed in a terminal ... the author uploaded some demos to YT showing the capabilities. It's been discussed in HN a bunch of times [2].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel

1: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/

2: https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=notcurses