A display element showing the current disposition of the player. Invented in its most recognizable form by
Infocom's
Interactive Fiction.
Typically, the
Status Line displays whichever are relevant of the player's score, state of health, ammunition, location, orientation and time remaining to complete the current task.
The display is almost always above (or at the top of) the
Main Window (though early
FPSes are an exception).
"The Status Line" was also the name of Infocom's newsletter, after a certain publication took issue with its original name, "The New
Zork Times".
