Swordquest
Sign in to saveSwordquest is a series of action-adventure video games developed and published by Atari, Inc. in the 1980s for the Atari 2600. It was developed as part of a contest, consisting of three finished games, Earthworld, Fireworld and Waterworld (with these titles occasionally appearing on cartridge labels and boxes with capitalized central Ws, e.g. EarthWorld), and a planned fourth game, Airworld.
Wikidata facts
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Atari, Inc.
- Developer
- Atari, Inc.
- Platform
- Atari 2600
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Distribution format
- ROM cartridge
- Designed by
- Tod Frye
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- input device
- joystick
- title
- Swordquest
- publication date
- 1980-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- narrative motif
- fraternal twins
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- About
- Gameplay
- Plot
- Development
- Contest
- Comic books
- Original mini-comics
- [[Dynamite Entertainment]] mini-series
- Reception
- In popular culture
- References
- External links
Swordquest is a series of action-adventure video games developed and published by Atari, Inc. in the 1980s for the Atari 2600. It was developed as part of a contest, consisting of three finished games, Earthworld, Fireworld and Waterworld (with these titles occasionally appearing on cartridge labels and boxes with capitalized central Ws, e.g. EarthWorld), and a planned fourth game, Airworld.
== About == Each of the games came with a comic book that explained the plot, as well as containing part of the solution to a major puzzle that had to be solved to win the contest, with a series of prizes whose total value was $150,000. The series had its genesis as a possible sequel to Atari's groundbreaking 1979 title Adventure, but it developed mythology and a system of play that was unique.
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