Secret Quest (Atari 2600) - The Atari 2600's Legend of Zelda - Saturday Afternoon Gaming

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Sci fi dungeon crawling on the 2600

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I'm Gaming Jay: Youtube gamer, let's player, fan of retro games, and determined optimist... Normally I'm working my way through the book 1001 VIDEO GAMES YOU MUST PLAY BEFORE YOU DIE in my Let's Play 1001 Games series. This is a great book with a ton of classic retro games but it doesn't have everything and it's even missing some of my favorite video games. Hence, in Saturday Afternoon Gaming, screw it, I'm just going to play whatever I want!

In this series I will be playing some of the best retro games that don't appear in the 1001 VIDEO GAMES YOU MUST PLAY BEFORE YOU DIE book. So pull up a chair, slap on your headphones, and join me as babble aimlessly through some of my most favourite classic games! And hey, if you have ideas or suggestions feel free to leave them in the comments below. I'm always looking for more games to try! Today we play...

Secret Quest
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Quest

Secret Quest is an action-adventure game developed by Axlon for the Atari 2600 and published by Atari Corporation in 1989. The player controls a humanoid character that fights monsters and gathers items on a series of space stations.

The game was originally inspired by Nintendo's The Legend Of Zelda (1987) for the Nintendo Entertainment System,[2] with the final space-themed concept developed and programmed by Steve DeFrisco.[3] Chris DeFrisco was hired to complete the artwork. A save game mechanic was incorporated due to the design concept of having lots of locations in an adventure style format. The development team faced data size issues when trying to fit the game onto the cartridge ROM.[4]

According to Vintage Games, the game was created as a final attempt to prove the 1977 console could compete with more modern hardware.[5] The cartridge is expanded with 256 bytes of RAM and 16 kilobytes of ROM.

The player controls a hero trying to stop several alien space station attacks. He is dressed in a space suit fighting aliens released from the space stations. He is trying to defuse a bomb set by the aliens, and detonate bombs in the space stations using codes.

Though some sources deem it the last game released on the Atari 2600, Old School Gamer magazine claims that the last game was Klax.[6]

Secret Quest has been featured on every version of the Atari FlashBack series of consoles since the Atari FlashBack 2. However, the game hasn't been re-released on any other Atari compilations and was also excluded from the Atari FlashBack 4.

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