The Dallas Quest

The Dallas Quest is a video game in the adventure genre developed by Datasoft, Inc. and published by Datasoft, Inc. originally released in 1984. It is currently playable on Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari 8-bit.

When a game is faithful to the bad writing and incredibly implausible plot conventions of a soap opera, does that make it a bad game or an effective adaptation of its source material? In either case, this game puts you in the shoes of a private investigator hired by Sue Ellen to find a map of hidden oil fields, hoping to amass enough wealth to escape the sinister influence of J. R. Sue Ellen offers you a $2 million bounty for the map. You snoop around the South Fork ranch grounds, interacting superficially with beloved characters from the TV series and an assortment of extras from the animal kingdom. You must avoid J. R. who wants to put an end to Sue Ellen's plans. So far, so good.

Your travels will eventually take you to the jungle of Playa Peligro in South America, where you overcome a series of obstacles using various techniques, but mostly by doping a cute monkey with tobacco, a firm reminder that we're descending below even soap opera plot conflicts and sitting squarely in an early 80s text adventure game, with all the internal logical twists that entails.

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