Quest 1 is a single-player role-playing game originally written for the TRS-80 and translated for the Apple II and Atari 8-bit computers. Published by SoftSide Magazine in 1981 as a type-in program, it is the first-known published game by Brian Reynolds. Quest 1 was republished in The Best of SoftSide (1983) and released on accompanying 5¼-inch floppy disks.
Quest 1
Published across the microcomputer community through the influential pages of Softside Magazine, Softside Publications released Quest 1 in 1981 for the TRS-80, Apple II, and Atari 8-bit, inviting fantasy adventure fans to type in and explore a medieval realm of castles, enchanted forests, and perilous underground dungeons, wielding broadswords and magical relics to solve environmental riddles and slay the dungeon dragon to claim the royal crown.
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