''Quest of the Space Beagle'' is an

action-adventure game The action-adventure genre is a video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres. Typically, pure adventure games have situational problems for the player to solve to complete a story ...

written by Scott Lamb for

Atari 8-bit computers The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc. in 1979 as the Atari 400 and Atari 800. The series was successively upgraded to Atari 1200XL , Atari 600XL, Atari 800XL, Atari 65XE, Atari 130XE, Atari 800XE, ...

and published by Avalon Hill Microcomputer Games in 1984. It is the sequel to '' Jupiter Mission 1999''. A

Commodore 64 The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas). It has been listed in the Guinness ...

port followed in 1985.

Gameplay

''Quest of the Space Beagle'' is a collection of minigames about the player finding and returning to Earth after a failed trip to

Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but ...

in the previous game.

Development

Scott Lamb wrote the game in Atari BASIC. The manual contains a note about a programming technique used to create the visuals: "One effect employs alternating graphics screens every 60th second, which considerably extends the graphics capabilities of the Atari computer. A side effect of this technique is flicker."

Reception

In an '' Antic'' review, Michael Ciraolo wrote, "there is little incentive to get to the next level so the game gets boring quickly. You do the same thing again and again." He also disliked the flickering effect of the graphics. Steve Hudson wrote in '' Compute!'': "The game's programmers have used some pretty fancy techniques to jazz up an already exciting game," and called one screen "an incredibly realistic display".

References

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* {{Avalon Hill 1984 video games Action-adventure games Atari 8-bit computer games Avalon Hill video games Commodore 64 games Microcomputer Games games Single-player video games Video games developed in the United States Video games set in outer space