Beatle Quest
Number 9 Software 
1985
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Garry Marsh
- Systems:
- Quill, The/AdventureWriter
- Platforms:
- C64/128 , Spectrum
- Genres:
- Based on music , Surreal
- Entered by:
- FredB74, Gunness, Strident
- Added:
- 10-05-2010
- Edited:
- 23-10-2021
Synopsis
Plot
The year is 2953. You're a "keeper of the archives" on a space station, where life is pretty mundane. You've recently discovered the songs of the Fab Four, and your task is to travel through various areas (all based on The Beatles' songs) and collect certain essential items.Notes
The game was announced as part one of a trilogy (the two next being called "A Day in the Life, part 2" and "Across the Universe"), but only this first game was released.According to this interview Garry Marsh received some sort of "cease and desist" demand from Ringo Starr's lawyers.
Sold a total of 500 copies.
An advertisement in Adventure Probe Volume 7 Issue 2, for the Number 9 re-release in 1993, mentions "now available" 'pre-publication copies' of 'Beatle Quest 1.5: The Magical Mystery Tour' for the Spectrum.
The original C64 was adapted in 2021 to make an unofficial version for Plus 4; see here.
Resources (Upload file)
- Solution
- by CJ_Egern
- Map
- by OVL
- Map
- by Exemptus
- Further Info:
- Search at Gamebase64
- Search at Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
- Search at Spectrum Computing
- Search at The Tipshop
- Search at World of Spectrum
[+] Users currently playing this game
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The release Spectrum version can't be completed due to it being hastily converted between Quill versions in order to add pictures. Fortunately there is a bugfixed version available. Shame that the game is not worth the trouble. Strictly for Fab Four fans who will get all the references.