Heatbomb21
June 12th, 2012, 09:43 PM
I was recently looking into old video games, and I came across the SwordQuest games for the Atari 2600. Apparently, there was a competition involving those games. To make a long story short, the competiton was to pretty much crack this Da Vinci code within the games and comics involving them.
Those who successfully cracked the code sent it to Atari, and were invited to Atari H.Q, and played in a tournament of SwordQuest games.
The winners won some freakishly amazing shit. A philosopher's stone made of jade, covered in real gold and jewels, a platinum goblet, a crown, and a silver sword with a gem encrusted hilt.
These prizes total to a whopping $150,000 in the competitions time.
Halfway through the competition, Atari went bankrupt and was bought out, and so the competition ended, and the remaining prizes were in the possession of the new owner.
This could have been a legendary gaming event. Why, after 30 years, has no other company tried to top this, tne customers it'd bring in, the hype it would generate would be unheard of...
Those who successfully cracked the code sent it to Atari, and were invited to Atari H.Q, and played in a tournament of SwordQuest games.
The winners won some freakishly amazing shit. A philosopher's stone made of jade, covered in real gold and jewels, a platinum goblet, a crown, and a silver sword with a gem encrusted hilt.
These prizes total to a whopping $150,000 in the competitions time.
Halfway through the competition, Atari went bankrupt and was bought out, and so the competition ended, and the remaining prizes were in the possession of the new owner.
This could have been a legendary gaming event. Why, after 30 years, has no other company tried to top this, tne customers it'd bring in, the hype it would generate would be unheard of...