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What are Archive Reviews? Archive Reviews are of products released long before this web site's origins in 1999. They are meant as reference, both to the games loved by those of us at Techtite.com in the "good old days" of gaming, and as a source to link to whenever we mention these "classic" games in a more recent review.
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Adventure(Atari, 1980, Atari 2600)A Techtite "Archive Review"A fun game that was arguably the first "real" home graphic adventure game, this placed the gamer in a world where there was no score, no two player (unlike nearly every game for the Atari 2600 in its first years), and no "lives." If your character was eaten (!), you could restart but that is it. The game may have been blocky, and often perhaps unintentionally humorous, but that was half its charm. The dragons looked like Seahorses more than ferocious creatures, but as an added amusement, they were drawn as an outline, so when eaten your character was literally trapped within the "belly" of the creature(!). While this sounds gross it was actually pretty cartoon-like and funny, especially when your character was actually just one big square dot. As an added amusement, you could find a sword (that looked like a simple arrow icon), which could kill any dragon permanently for one entire game. Added amusements included castles that could only be opened with a key of the same color, and a chalice that had to be returned to your golden (yellow) castle, to win the whole game. Tougher difficulty levels included a bat that would steal items you leave lying around the place (your character can only carry one item at a time), and mazes that were dark and could only be seen one area at a time with your "torch" (a lit circle would follow your "dot" around). Overall, this was one fun game.
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