Crunchbytes, Issue 1

I'm starting a new series wherein I review games I've beaten in the last month. Let's see how long this lasts, hahaha. I've become quite a fan of the emulation community and have joined a few different community events with RetroAchievents. I find playing older games to be a delightful trove of game design research. Adventure System: Atari 2600 Released: March 1980 Developer: Atari (Warren Robinett) Publisher: Atari, Sears My Playtime: ~15 Minutes Box art by Susan Jaekel. Your quest as a single block is simple. Find an enchanted chalice and return it to the gold castle. Move throughout a set of rooms to solve puzzles and avoid both bats and dargons as they chase you across the screen. While it may look simple now, it was a foundational game for the games industry. Since its release in 1980, it has been heralded as one of the first action-adventure video games. Utilizing the mechanic of walking off screen to move to interconnected rooms was a revolutionary idea, something games…