What do tobacco chewing monkeys, cannibal tribes, interdimensional travel and J.R. Ewing have in common? You guessed it, the 1984 graphical adventure game Dallas Quest.
In the past few weeks the retro television blog Made for TV Mayhem has been focusing quite a bit on the retro TV prime-time hit Dallas. A series focusing on the family of oil barren Ewings and the dastardly dealings of older brother J.R., his alcoholic wife Sue Ellen, the liberal younger brother Bobby and his looney tune bride Pam. From 1978 to 1991, the Ewing family spent one hour a week destroying their enemies and one another. All this Dallas talk got me looking a bit closer and this nighttime soap from the past, and I soon uncovered a nearly forgotten hidden secret that most hardcore fans never even knew about.
The most shocking events to come out of the series wasn't Sue Ellen drinking and driving while pregnant, it wasn't the entire season that was one long dream sequence, it wasn't even the nation trying to figure out who shot J.R., it was the bizarre computer game Dallas Quest.
When developer/publisher Datasoft Inc. obtained the license to make a computer game out of the hit TV series they were faced with the enormous challenge of creating a game out of a franchise that had little to no gameable elements. To solve the problem they threw in every successful adventure game standard, the result being one of the weirdest, most nonsensical games ever made.
- In honor of all things retro and weird, we've present a brand new review of the nearly forgotten game, Dallas Quest.
- More about the Dallas television series at Made for TV Mayhem.
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Screenshots © Datasoft
Comments
OMG, thank you for not letting me forget this Game.
i played it on my C64 in the older days, i kinda liked it but i was always stuck in some field as i can remember…
Thx for this great Article