Just saw this review on an old, unfinished, Atari game series called Swordquest:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry … tack/61988
I have to say I was pretty surprised any game company would have a contest with prizes like that. Does anyone here remember it (was born in 1986 so I missed it)? Also, have any other game companies had contests with prizes like this?
Do I remember it? Vaguely.
My family owned an Atari 2600 back then, but I wasn’t into video games at the time. I remember playing Fireworld, because of the falling knives mini-game. It was really… weird… Didn’t know there was a video game contest associated to it though. Game seemed rather pointless. Now I know why.
As for the sword thing. I’ve read that Jack Tramiel had a gold sword in his house before: I distinctly recalling reading about it, in an economist magazine that talked about him. Again, didn’t know it was associated to a contest or Atari ¬ñ thought it was something he made because he was rich. I’ll see if I can probe around Google and find the issue.
There have been lots of video contests through the decades. With prizes totaling $150,000 or more? Absolutely. There have been contests offering prizes of cars and trips around the world. Anything involving jewel studded golden artifacts? Naw. Not like that.
I actually had the 1st game in the series, a long long time ago. Was kind of meh iirc.
IIRC there have been some big contests in recent years that were also canceled… in general don’t get your hopes up when a video game promises you a chest of jewels!
see also:
treasure quest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Quest_%28game%29
advent rising
http://xbox.about.com/od/news/a/arcontestend.htm
Oh God… Don’t make me remember the Atari and all those super old pseudo RPG there were before… :lol:
Does someone remember an old rpg on PC (dos) in 2 colors where the “protagonist” was shaped like a clover or a spade ?
You had to find random items (key, sword, …) in a castle and fight various monster and a vampire I think.
… In fact the name was “castle”
lol… that’s old… are you showing your age? 
I think the “earliest” digital RPG I’ve played was Dunjonquest. 
I say I think, because it’s so distant a memory, and all BASIC RPG’s were pretty much the same back then. :lol:
Check out those high resolution, cutting edge graphics, and real time gameplay. They don’t make games like they used too.
Infocom used to use as their advertising tagline that they had the best computer graphics in the entire world: your imagination.
At the time, of course, they were basically correct. This did not last.
That’s definitively old, but I’m “only” 29.
There are older games out there.