The Sands of Egypt
| The Sands of Egypt | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Datasoft |
| Publishers | Datasoft Tandy |
| Designer | James Garon |
| Programmers | Color Computer James Garon Ralph Burris Steve Bjork Atari 8-bit Frank Cohen Apple II Brian Mountford |
| Platforms | TRS-80 Color Computer, Atari 8-bit, Apple II |
| Release | 1982: CoCo, Atari 1983: Apple |
| Genre | Graphic adventure |
| Mode | Single-player |
The Sands of Egypt is a 1982 graphic adventure game written by James Garon, Ralph Burris, and Steve Bjork of Datasoft for the TRS-80 Color Computer. It was licensed to Tandy Corporation and was the first disk-only game for the Color Computer sold by RadioShack. Ports to Atari 8-bit computers in 1982 and Apple II in 1983 were published by Datasoft. Set in 1893, the game follows a British explorer and archaeologist who is lost in the desert. Text commands are entered in the lower half of the screen, while a sometimes animated image of the current location is displayed in the upper half.