Below the Root is an adventure developed by Dale Disharoon, Inc., released 31 December 1984 on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
What Below the Root is
Below the Root is an adventure game developed by Dale Disharoon, Inc. and released in 1984. It was published by Windham Classics Corporation. It is available on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Below the Root is an adventure game released in 1984 by Windham Classics, a division of Spinnaker Software. It is titled after Below the Root, the first of the Green Sky Trilogy of novels, written by Zilpha Keatley Snyder and published between 1975 and 1977. It is an early example of what later became known as the Metroidvania genre.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Below the Root launched on 31 December 1984, within three weeks of Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike and Bomb Jack.
Released around the same time: Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike, Bomb Jack.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
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