The Legend of SwordQuest

What started as a promotion for a new Atari game would become one of the most controversial moments in ‘80s pop culture, with a central mystery that’s consumed fans for decades: what happened to the missing SwordQuest prizes? To unlock the biggest mystery in video game history, host Jamie Loftus is going on a treasure hunt 40 years in the making.
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Excellent podcast
Jan 2
Very interesting and well written
What an Awesome Story
Feb 18
Brings me back to my Atari playing days!
A Must Listen for Video Game Historians
11/02/2024
Such a well researched and executed Podcast. Kudos to the entire team for this. I was honestly riveted. I never imagined there’d be enough here to carry 8 episodes, but with the research and very well done exposition, they really pulled it off.
🖤
10/28/2024
I am hooked on this podcast! I never knew Atari and Sword Quest could take my life over like this 😂
Good idea, not well produced.
10/31/2024
First podcast where Jnfelt like ai wasted my time and was frustrated listening to the episodes. I’ll save you time. No one knows where the prizes are the journey to get there is fascinating but was drawn out. The narrator kept saying the same things over and over again. Posing the same questions and placing judgement or unnecessary opinions. The idea was great but it’s smushed between ads and recaps .Then it ends with a overview of the next episode and more ads. And yet there are zero transitions between ads and content. There isn’t a lot of information per episode. It’s clearly a iheart radio podcast. I lose the point or or struggle to see why the current topic at hand is important. Again, the information is fascinating but could have been produced a lot better. After starting episode 7, I am extremely tempted to just Wikipedia the rest of the information. The final episode is not well done either. I am very disappointed in this podcast. I really wanted this to be amazing
Love this
10/15/2024
Highly recommended!
Fantastic
10/10/2024
I’ve read a lot of articles online and in print about Swordquest before. But this podcast provides so much more detail, and shows that most of those articles had incorrect information.
On the edge of my seat
10/10/2024
The story is compelling, Jamie Loftus is an excellent host, excited to hear how it all shakes out.
Jamie Loftus - the Master!
10/07/2024
Does it again!
Loving it!
10/06/2024
It’s a story I remember wondering about back in the 80’s but had mostly forgotten about. Why do I have a feeling the last episode of this podcast might never come out haha!
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