Fun adventure game. Some platforming, puzzling, dungeon searching, a little bit of everything.

The story of the development of this and its sibling games is far more interesting than anything you'll actually do in the game. I also hate the area transition animation with a burning passion.

The Swordquest series isn't super remarkable if you go into it without any context or instructions, but if you know the history of how these games represented a sort of "treasure hunt" contest for real life, I'd say they're really neat, ingenious, ambitious, and ahead of their time in that respect. Swordquest arguably pioneered the concept of an "ARG" in a sense, as the game required players to seek clues outside the game to put things into context and solve its cryptic puzzles.

Played as part of Atari 50.

Maybe even a little worse than Adventure in that it's basically entirely unplayable rather than just being really viscously annoying, but it's also the sort of game where it's so blatantly obtuse and bullshit and trial-and-error that I feel fine playing 5 minutes of it, resolving that I've seen enough, and never turning it on again. No value.

Nearly impossible without the comic book but I followed a youtube guide and I feel powerful for completing it

Playing Through My Evercade Collection Part 1: Atari Vol 1

Hopelessly obtuse and just not fun to play through. Its honestly a game where divorced from the ridiculous competition that circled this and its sequels, just is more frustrating than interesting. Surprisingly this is the only one of the three on the Evercade carts, parts 2 and 3 are not present at all, either on this collection or on the second set. Very odd indeed.