''Lost Dutchman's Gold'' is a 1979 video game designed by Terry Kepner (as "Teri Li") and published by

The Software Exchange The Software Exchange was a company that produced computer games in the late 1970s and early 1980s, primarily for the TRS-80. It has origins with ''SoftSide'' magazine. Games *'' Atlantic Balloon Crossing'' (1979) *'' Dragon-Quest Adventure'' (197 ...

for the

TRS-80 The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (TRS-80, later renamed the Model I to distinguish it from successors) is a desktop microcomputer developed by American company Tandy Corporation and sold through their Radio Shack stores. Launched in 1977, it is ...

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''Lost Dutchman's Gold'' is a

text adventure Interactive fiction (IF) is software simulating environments in which players use text Command (computing), commands to control Player character, characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narrati ...

in which the player searches for gold hidden in the desert.

Reception

Jon Mishcon reviewed ''Lost Dutchman's Gold'' in ''

The Space Gamer ''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the la ...

'' No. 34. Mishcon commented that "Overall, a good game of the adventure genre, well worth its reasonable price, but certainly not the best of its class."

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1979 video games Adventure games The Software Exchange games TRS-80 games TRS-80-only games Video games developed in the United States {{puzzle-videogame-stub

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