Sea Quest

aka: Sea Search
Moby ID: 45210
TRS-80 CoCo Specs
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In Sea Search you must find several treasures throughout this aquatic adventure. It will require deep sea diving and a little digging to find them all. You will need to elude several dangers from pirates to man eating sharks or become fish bait.

When the game was first released it was called Sea Quest and later changed to Sea Search. This graphical interactive fiction game uses standard single letter direction N,S,E,W for movement. You can also SAVE your current location on cassette for restarting later. The command parser is a standard verb noun type (Go Door).

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Average score: 82% (based on 1 ratings)

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Average score: 4.1 out of 5 (based on 9 ratings with 1 reviews)

Lil' relaxing adventure

The Good
In 1984/1985, Mark Data Products flooded CoCo / PC market with lot of low-cost adventure games which were very similar one to each other (same layout, simple parser, maybe even some assets were shared between games). I personally liked most this game, because of one reason. The game was simple, as was the plot. All in all, if you have very simple parser and simple room descriptions (e.g. compared to Infocom adventures), you can't tie deeper story to it. If you try it, the result can be non-believable. The strength of this game is in fact, that it didn't try for any "deep story". It's just about search and collect treasures. And with this simple background, the game is actually quite fun. I was able to beat it in few hours.

Other strong point (which is the case also of other MDP adventures) is nice neat graphics. CGA graphics didn't allow too much, but MDP adventures were example of "CGA gfx made right". There were lot of other adventure games of the same year, which were higher quality regarding parser or room descriptions, but gfx was just mess, because they tried to cram too complicated sceneries into 4-colors CGA. MDP adventures with simpler but neat gfx and shapes were much more pleasant to eyes.

The Bad
Some puzzles were just non-sensical. Plus, if I recall correctly, the game was completely lack of sound.

The Bottom Line
Good fun for few hours, for adventure lovers, which want to relax with something simple, but yet fun. One of the few games where I didn't mind CGA graphics as it was done right.

DOS · by Vladimir Dienes · 2023

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Game added by me3D31337.

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Game added February 25, 2010. Last modified August 14, 2023.