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Stonequest

LotsaBytes info 1984

Language:
English
Authors:
David H. Strelitz
Systems:
BASIC info
Platforms:
Atari 400/800
Genres:
Fantasy, misc.
Entered by:
Gunness, Strident
Added:
03-08-2010
Edited:
15-03-2025

Synopsis

A struggling alchemist created a stone that magically gave prosperity to whoever owned it. He gave this to the king of Parnidell, hoping that the kingdom would prosper. And it did.
Unfortunately, the king did not give credit to the alchemist, but claimed that he'd invented the stone himself. The alchemist became angry and bitter and soon turned to evil.

When the king died, his son Weesey took over the throne. Weesey was a good king, but "not well endowed in the brains department". The alchemist was able to trick Weesey and steal back the stone. Without the stone, prosperity left the kingdom and "the Parnidell stock market crashed". King Weesey summoned the greatest adventurers in the land to try and recover the Great Stone of Prosperity (as it had become known), but none were successful.

In desperation, he offered "the greatest reward imaginable" for the recovery of the stone and this is where you enter the picture.

Notes

In three parts.

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Map
by Canalboy (trizbort)
Clue sheet
by Gunness
Review
by Canalboy
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Canalboy (13-03-2025 21:09)

I downloaded this from AtariMania and was progressing nicely until I tried to descend via the Trapdoor and received a "disk i/o error #138."

Canalboy (13-03-2025 21:45)

Oddly the same error message that crashes the game via Altirra 4.21 is not displayed in Altirra 4.30. This may be related to the changing of video mode to enhanced text (CIO) in 4.21 but I am not sure; however the main thing is I can carry on with the game.

Canalboy (14-03-2025 20:36)

Roll up roll up for what might well be the most tedious maze in text adventure history. A nice little game of 34 locations suddenly morphed into a maze consisting of 200 rooms in itself, all identically described and needing thorough mapping to find the two objects contained therein. Having finally mapped them all you then need to try and find the exit. This is up there with Whembly Castle, Warp and Adventure 500 for sheer maze vindictiveness. Maybe the author has shares in Specsavers.