| Troll's Tale | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Developer(s) | Sunnyside Soft[1] |
| Publisher(s) | Sierra On-Line |
| Designer(s) | Al Lowe |
| Programmer(s) | Al Lowe Dave Scrunton (Atari) Peter Oliphant (IBM PC) |
| Platform(s) | Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, IBM PC |
| Release | 1983 |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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.[2] Sierra acquired the game from Sunnysoft, along with Dragon's Keep and Bop-A-Bet by April 1983[1] and appointed Nancy Anderton to manage the publishing of their educational games.[3] Peter Oliphant converted the games for the Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64 and, as a self-booting disk, IBM PC compatibles.[4] Coleco made a deal with Sierra[5] planning to release the game on ColecoVision with a Super Game Module.[6]
The game came packaged with a paper map, showing an incomplete layout of the game and stickers to mark the treasure locations.[7]
- ^ a b "Arcade Express Newsletter". 1 (18). April 10, 1983: 3. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Troll's Tale - The Sierra Chest". Retrieved January 14, 2019.
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- ^ "Now you see it, now you don't". Electronic Fun with Computers & Games. Vol. 1, no. 11. Richard Ekstract. September 1983. p. 10.
- ^ "Learning Games - Computer Gaming World". Computer Gaming World. Vol. 4, no. 3. Ziff Davis. June 1984. p. 36.
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