Timequest
Timequest is an interactive fiction game for MS-DOS in which players use time travel to venture into the past and correct temporal disruptions.
Timequest is an adventure developed by Legend Entertainment, released 31 December 1991 on DOS.
What Timequest is
Timequest is an adventure game developed by Legend Entertainment and released in 1991. It is available on DOS only. It runs on Legend.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the year 2090 AD, the use of time machines (called interkrons) is regulated by officers of the Temporal Corps. There is a strict prohibition against travel into the past, because of its potentially disastrous effects on the timestream and the catastrophic consequences for current civilization. Zeke S. Vettenmyer, a Lieutenant in the Temporal Corps, has stolen an interkron, traveled back into the past, and subtly altered historical situations so that the outcomes of these events will be changed. The world as we know it will be destroyed as the effects of these changes ripple forward towards the present and cause massive disruptions in the timestream. You are a private in the Temporal…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Timequest launched on 31 December 1991, within three weeks of Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Baseball Stars 2 and Commander Keen in Keen Dreams.
Released around the same time: Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Baseball Stars 2, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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