• Introducing: The Legend of SwordQuest
    Sep 5 2024

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    2 mins
  • 1: The Sword and the Stoned
    Sep 13 2024

    In the early 1980s, Atari is one of the biggest entertainment brands in the world and seeks to promote the biggest video game contest to date, promising $150,000 in prizes. But what starts out as a promising adventure quickly devolves into chaos.

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    39 mins
  • 2: Gentlemen, Start Your Joysticks
    Sep 19 2024

    Expert gamers are invited to an all-expenses paid trip to California for the first round of Atari’s SwordQuest contest and a chance at the first treasure: a $25,000 medallion. The problem? Solving the game’s central puzzle will prove nearly impossible.

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    37 mins
  • 3: The Chalice
    Sep 26 2024

    SwordQuest players discover that being video game rock stars comes at a price. Meanwhile, delays in the contest raise suspicions among contestants that Atari may not intend to see it through to the end—and that the prizes may not even exist at all.

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    36 mins
  • 4: Descent Into Darkness
    Oct 3 2024

    Atari’s financial problems force the company to issue an ultimatum to SwordQuest players—one that may involve a top-secret gaming tournament closed to the public.

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    40 mins
  • 5: Stay Gold
    Oct 10 2024

    Years after SwordQuest came to an abrupt and disappointing end, a gamer makes a surprising discovery in a Brooklyn thrift shop.

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    41 mins
  • 6: Plunder
    Oct 17 2024

    An unreleased SwordQuest game suddenly surfaces online; the fate of the missing prizes undergoes fresh scrutiny by gaming historians.

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    37 mins
  • 7: The Swordsman
    Oct 24 2024

    The trail to find the missing SwordQuest treasures leads back to one of the most controversial figures in Atari history.

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    36 mins