Quest 1

Quest 1 is a single-player role-playing game originally written for the TRS-80 and translated for the Apple II and Atari 8-bit family. Created by Brian Reynolds and published by SoftSide Magazine in 1981,[1][2] it is the first-known published game by game designer Brian Reynolds, who later went on to be the founder of several video game companies (e.g. Firaxis and Big Huge Games, and who designed well-known videogames such as Civilization II, Rise of Nations, and FrontierVille. Based on his birth year, it can be inferred that Reynolds was only 13–14 years old at the time of publication. Quest 1 was subsequently republished in The Best of SoftSide (1983) and released on accompanying 5¼-inch floppy disks.[3] The first publication of Quest 1 provided the source code (printed on the pages of the magazine); magazine subscribers could type the source code into their computers and play the game. This was a common format in computer magazines in the late 1970's and early 1980's. The subsequent republication made the game available on floppy disk.

Logo and title illustration from Best of SoftSide
Publisher(s)SoftSide
Designer(s)Brian Reynolds
Programmer(s)Brian Reynolds
Rich Bouchard (Apple)
Alan J. Zett (Atari)
Platform(s)TRS-80 (original)
Apple II, Atari 8-bit
Release1981
Genre(s)Interactive fiction
Mode(s)Single-player

References
  1. Reynolds, Brian (August 1981). "Quest 1". Softside Magazine. Milford, NH: Roger Robitaille Sr.
  2. "Softside Magazine 35". archive.org. Internet Archive. August 1981. Retrieved October 10, 2020.
  3. Fred Condo, ed. (1983). "Quest". The Best of SoftSide. Milford, New Hampshire: SoftSide Publications, Inc.
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