Dragon-Quest Adventure

Programmer's Guild, The , Virgin Books 1980

Aka:: Dragon Quest, Dragonquest adventure
Language:: English
Authors:: Charles Forsythe
Systems:: Assembler, BASIC
Platforms:: C64/128 , TRS-80
Genres:: Fantasy, misc., Type-in
Related:: Castles and Kingdom Adventures [1: Brass Helm, The, 2: Dragon-Quest Adventure, 3: Tale of Spider Mountain, A, 4: Thunder Mountain Passage, 5: Stargate, 6: Castle Northstar, 7: Deadly Dungeon, 8: Temple of Vishtari, The, 9: Tower of Fear, 10: Werewolf Wars, 11: Gauntlet of Death, 12: Firekeep, 13: Revenge of Balrog, 14: Fortress at Time's End, The, 15: Blue-Eyed Thief]
Entered by:: Alex, dave, gamingafter40, Gunness, Strident
Added:: 20-09-2010
Edited:: 20-08-2022

Synopsis

Plot

Explore a sparsely populated Kingdom to gather equipment and rescue the King's daughter from a fire-breathing Dragon, before she is sacrificed at sundown!

Notes

This quality effort was Charles Forsythe's first published game, written in machine language with fewer spelling errors than the norm for the era. The plot is nothing innovative, but it's a pleasant little adventure.

(Note: Charles Forsythe's authorship was confirmed via email by gamingafter40.)

A C64 BASIC version was published as a type-in game in the book Castles & Kingdoms. The game is slightly different to the TRS80 version. North/South and East/West have been switched, and one or two of the objects are different. Many versions on the Internet have typo's making the game unsolvable. Simon's fixed version (below) addresses many of these and also includes the magic word omitted from the book.