Unsolved Mysteries of Gaming - The Lost Prizes of Swordquest (Patreon)

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2020-10-15 15:56:31

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2022-04

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Back in 1982, Atari was holding a gaming contest to award players hand made prizes (Including a jewel encrusted sword) valued at $150,000. Unfortunately, most of the prizes have gone missing. What happened to them? And are they still out there today? Listen to the fascinating story of Swordquest!

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Unsolved Mysteries of Gaming - The Lost Prizes of Swordquest

In the world of gaming there are very few unsolved mysteries. But today I'd like to talk about the lost prizes of Swordquest, a competition in the early 1980's for a series of games made by Atari. The Swordquest competition challenged players to possibly win items valued at $25,000. And overall the Swordquest competition was giving out up to $150,000. Despite this, more than half of the prizes are missing to this day, and Stephen Bell and Michael Rideout are the only known people to have the Swordquest prizes to this day. So what happened to the other ones? And maybe you know something about them? Let's find out, on unsolved mysteries of gaming. Check us out on all these platforms: Discord: https://discord.gg/kt9AJtp Patreon: https://Patreon.com/aroundthemonitor Twitch: https://Twitch.tv/KingKaiser Instagram: https://Instagram.com/aroundthemonitor Twitter: https://Twitter.com/roundthemonitor Facebook: https://Facebook.com/AroundtheMonitor #unsolvedmysteries #swordquest #atari2600games