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From: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed)
Newsgroups: net.games.video
Subject: Thayer's Quest
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Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 14:58:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 28 14:58:05 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Nov-84 03:03:18 EST
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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I discovered a new video game at my local parlor this weekend called
"Thayer's Quest".  It is the most sophisticated video game I've seen yet,
and marks a new direction in coin-op video.  It is essentially an analog of
the Adventure game that we all have grown up with, but it incorporates video
disk and audio output technology into a unit.  There is actually and
instruction manual that goes with the game.  Quoting from it:

    "Thayer's Quest" creates a realm of fantasy and adventure where
    survival and success depend more on your decisions than your
    reflexes.  

    YOU control apprentice wizard Thayer Alconred in his quest
    against an evil sorcerer.  Choose the course of action Thayer
    takes by pressing the number key which matches your choice.
    Each option leads to a different outcome.  Depending on your
    choices, each play differs from the last.

    You will have time to make your choice, but some situations
    require quick thinking.  If you wait too long, you can miss
    your chance.

There is a collection of magical items that you need to find and wield at the
appropriate places.  Many of the teenagers standing around the machine would
get bored and walk away (this game is no "Stargate"), but I found the game
fascinating.  What was particularly amazing was that in the prolog, you are
given a chance to enter your name by spelling it, and the game responds by
pronouncing it!  It had no trouble with my name (Robert), or someone else's
fictitious name (Duin).  I am very curious about the sophistication of just
this small element of the game.

Has anyone seen this game?
-- 
Robert Reed, Logic Design Systems Division, tektronix!teklds!bobr