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    Default Riddle of the Sphinx...

    I had this game on Atari back in the day and it was one of those games I never finished. That being said did anyone here complete this and would you be kind enough to share your thoughts on it?

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    That game was always an enigma to me as a kid, I never got it with the manual and really had no clue what you were sopose to do (back in the pre-internet days) I recently picked up a boxed copy of it but sadly no manual. someday i'll figure it out ;-)

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    Oh yeah, I managed to finish it. It wasn't all that hard. You could only proceed so far North until you were stopped at a building. If you offer a certain item there, you can proceed. You kept doing that at the next couple of buildings until the game was over. The instructions really helped you out, giving you not-entirely-subtle hints on what to offer.

    I always wished for more games like this on the 2600. It had a good deal of originality, and a nice amount of complexity for a game running in 4K of memory on a primitive machine like the VCS. It would have been nice if other game programmers would have made knock-offs of stuff like Adventure and Riddle of the Sphinx instead of the countless clones of Demon Attack or Defender.

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    maybe i'm wierd, but I want to come across the original manual at some point in my travels before I read it online.

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    Once you beat it, its replay value becomes 0.

    20 minutes to beat it....


    still kind of a neat game.
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