Space Knight (Atari 400/800)

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Space Knights...a game I know next to nothing about and couldn't find much more on. Space Knights was unique in that it was sold as a book AND game. The book, about 100 pages long, gives the backstory for the game. Or I should say games. The disk that is included is for the Atari 400/800 and really includes 6 games.

At the end of the book are instructions for how to load each game, how to play, and the relevant story excerpt to give you the context of what you are playing. The instructions say that the disk is designed to operate with an Atari 800/48K/Disk Drive Computer equipped with a BASIC cartridge.

I haven't found any screenshots yet either but I imagine these were fairly simple games graphically speaking. It's certainly an interesting concept from 1983. I believe that this game was only released for Atari 8-bit computers and the author claims that it was a year long effort to produce.

The title page was made up to be an advertisement and it had a futuristic copyright date. That date was 2021...so not long now...

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