Joust

Description

Joust was a popular arcade game that was created and released by Williams Electronics in 1982.

In the game, players take control of a knight with a lance who rides their flying ostrich (or stork, for Player 2) to do battle against computer-controlled evil knights who ride atop vultures. Players must flap their steed's wings to hit the enemy from a higher jousting point to destroy the vulture and its rider. Once the enemy has been hit, an egg falls to one of the platforms below. The heroic knights must destroy the eggs before they hatch and release new and increasingly more difficult knights. The three strengths of enemy knights are Bounder (red knight), Hunter (white knight) and Shadow Lord (blue knight)

These enemy knights are not the only challenge to be found in the game. Players must also contend with crumbling platforms, lava trolls who attempt to pull knights into the firey, and the dreaded "unbeatable"(?) pterodactyl.

Joust was novel for its time for being one of the few two-player simultaneous games in the arcade.

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User Reviews

Thou shalt kill those buzzards	NES	Black Wolf (37231)
A classic.	PC Booter	Tomer Gabel (4476)
Another bullseye for the Lynx porting legacy.	Lynx	Trixter (8866)

The Press Says

IGN	Lynx	Jul 06, 1999	10 out of 10	100
The Video Game Critic	Atari 8-bit	Dec 28, 2002	A	100
Micro 7	Atari 8-bit	Apr, 1984		80
Abandonia	PC Booter	Feb 07, 2009	4 out of 5	80
Game Freaks 365	Atari 2600	Jul 03, 2007	7.2 out of 10	72
TeamXbox	Xbox 360	Dec 08, 2005	7 out of 10	70
Games Radar	Xbox 360	Apr 18, 2006	7 out of 10	70
XBox Evolved	Xbox 360	Dec 12, 2005	6.9 out of 10	69
Lawrence	Xbox 360	Aug 15, 2006	6 out of 10	60
Extreme Gamer	Xbox 360	Jan 30, 2006	6 out of 10	60

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Trivia

Joust was one of the "Fabulous Eleven" launch games for the Atari 7800.