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Troll's Tale cover

1983 · Adventure · Educational

Troll's Tale

A children's adventure game in the vein of Sierra's Hi-Res franchise, in which an evil troll has capture all the the dwarf king's treasures, and only you can help save them.

Released
1983
Platforms
Apple IIAtari 8-bitCommodore C64/128/MAXMS-DOS
Genres
AdventureEducational
Developers
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Publishers
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Perspective
First person
Themes
Fantasy
Country
United States
Languages
English

About

Troll's Tale is an adventure video game developed in by Sunnyside Soft and published by Sierra On-Line for the Apple II in 1983. It uses the same engine for Sunnysoft's earlier game Dragon's Keep. Sierra acquired the game from Sunnysoft, along with Dragon's Keep and Bop-A-Bet by April 1983, and appointed Nancy Anderton to manage the publishing of their educational games. Peter Oliphant converted the games for the Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64 and, as a self-booting disk, IBM PC compatibles. Coleco made a deal with Sierra planning to release the game on ColecoVision with a Super Game Module.

The game came packaged with a paper map, showing an incomplete layout of the game and stickers to mark the treasure locations.

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Gameplay

A troll has taken sixteen treasures from the Dwarf King and has hidden them around his lands. The game is very straightforward, since the player doesn't require any mapping skills. Commands and movements are done using single keys on the keyboard.

Sierra recommended the game for second and third graders.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Apple II31 December 1983North America
MS-DOS31 December 1984North America
Atari 8-bit31 December 1984North America
Commodore C64/128/MAX31 December 1984North America

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