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| Developer(s) | The Connelley Group |
| Publisher(s) | Epyx |
| Designer(s) | Jim Connelley |
| Series | Dragonriders of Pern |
| Platform(s) | Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 |
| Release | 1983 |
| Genre(s) | Strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, two-player |
Dragonriders of Pern is a video game published by Epyx in 1983 based on Anne McCaffrey's book series of the same name. The game was released for the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64.
The player acts as the ruler of a "weyr", a mountaintop redoubt where the people of the planet Pern raise dragons in order to protect against periodic invasions of deadly "thread" that falls from a nearby planet. The game is primarily a strategic one, in which the user attempts to form alliances, but it also includes an action portion where the player controls a dragon in an attempt to destroy falling thread.
The game was considered a forerunner of similar games based on novels.[1] A sequel for the Commodore 64, Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern, was cancelled.[2]
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