Stonequest

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Stonequest is an all-text Adventure written by David Strelitz. It is again written in BASIC which proves that this language is more than adequate for a fast executing, complex Adventure when placed in the hands of a competent author.

The six double-spaced pages of instructions for Stonequest are nowhere near as thorough as those for Dragon Quest, but adequate just the same. They consist of a title page, a lengthy background story and helpful playing instructions. The background story tells how a struggling alchemist created a stone that magically gave prosperity to whoever owned it. He gave this to the king of Parnidell, hoping that the kingdom would prosper. And it did. Unfortunately, the king did not give credit to the alchemist, but claimed that he'd invented the stone himself. The alchemist became angry and bitter and soon turned to evil. When the king died, his son Weesey took over the throne. Weesey was a good king, but "not well endowed in the brains department". The alchemist was able to trick Weesey and steal back the stone. Without the stone, prosperity left the kingdom and "the Parnidell stock market crashed". King Weesey summoned the greatest adventurers in the land to try and recover the Great Stone of Prosperity (as it had become known), but none were successful. In desperation, he offered "the greatest reward imaginable" for the recovery of the stone and this is where you enter the picture.
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