Adventure Atari 2600 Level 1 play through

The players goal is simply to find the enchanted chalice and return it to the gold castle. The player character represented by a square explores a multi-screen landscape containing castles mazes and various rooms. Hidden throughout the world are a sword keys to unlock each of the three castles gold black and white a magic bridge which allows the player to travel through a wall and a magnet which will pull any of these objects toward it. Roaming the world are three dragons: Yorgle the yellow dragon: He is afraid of the golden key and will run away from it. He guards the chalice when he can find it otherwise he wanders around or helps the other dragons guard their possessions. Grundle the green dragon: He guards the magnet the bridge the black key and the chalice. Rhindle the red dragon: He is the fastest of the three and the most aggressive. He guards the white key and chalice. Here the player top right is carrying the Sword and Rhindle middle is guarding the chalice left. A dragon can be killed by touching it with the sword. If the consoles right difficulty switch is in the A position the dragons will run away when they see the sword. When a dragon touches the player it will strike remaining motionless for a moment with its mouth open waiting for a shorter time if the consoles left difficulty switch is in the A position and then swallow the player who becomes trapped in the dragons belly. While the dragons mouth is opened it cannot be killed. A black bat flies around randomly occasionally picking up or dropping objects including live or dead dragons. The bat can steal the players sword and give him a live dragon in return or vice-versa. The player can catch the bat and carry it around. The bat continues to fly even after the player has been killed and occasionally the bat will pick up the dragon whose stomach contains the player giving the player a whirlwind tour of the Adventure universe. The player can trap the bat inside a castle this works best with the gold castle since it has only one room and provided the player has emptied it beforehand the bat will if it is flying upwards straight up or diagonally up-right or up-left fly around endlessly in the room and will not leave the castle. If the player enters with another item the bat will change direction to grab the new item and usually end up leaving the castle. The bats name was intended to be Knubberrub but that name never made it into the manual.7 There are three different games available via the Game Select switch: Game 1 is a simplified version of the game and does not have the red dragon the bat the catacombs the white castle or the maze inside the black castle. Game 2 is the full version having all the features described. The location of the objects at the start of a new game is always the same and because of this known initial state this is the easiest game to use to find the Easter egg. Game 3 is just like Game 2 however the initial locations of the objects are pseudo-randomized providing a different game each time. Because of this the game could be easier or harder to solve occasionally impossible due to a bug in the item-placement routine that sometimes locks the gold key inside the gold castle. Due to the unpredictable placement of the items it is more difficult to secure the bat and locate the items needed to find the Easter egg though the location of the dot is consistent. When a player is eaten by a dragon he does not necessarily have to start over. Hitting the Game Reset switch resurrects the player back at the gold castle and resurrects any killed dragons however the objects all remain where they were at the time of the players death. This could be thought of as one of the earliest usages of the continue game feature which is now prevalent in most video games. Hitting Game Select after death returns the game to the game select screen and an entirely new game can be played.,

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