In Joust, 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 fire, and the dreaded "unbeatable"(?) pterodactyl.

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

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A classic.	PC Booter	Tomer Gabel (4429)
Thou shalt kill those buzzards	NES	B14ck W01f (37398)
Another bullseye for the Lynx porting legacy.	Lynx	Trixter (8804)

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The Press Says

The Video Game Critic	Atari 8-bit	Dec 28, 2002	A	100
The Video Game Critic	Atari 7800	Mar 13, 2001	A	100
Power Unlimited	Lynx	Jan, 1994	8 out of 10	80
IGN	Xbox 360	Dec 02, 2005	7.5 out of 10	75
GameSpot	Xbox 360	Nov 23, 2005	7.3 out of 10	73
Game Freaks 365	Atari 2600	Jul 03, 2007	7.2 out of 10	72
All Game Guide	Lynx	1998		70
XBox Evolved	Xbox 360	Dec 12, 2005	6.9 out of 10	69
Jeuxvideo.com	Atari ST	Jul 01, 2011	12 out of 20	60
Extreme Gamer	Xbox 360	Jan 30, 2006	6 out of 10	60