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| The Sands of Egypt | |
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| Developer(s) | Datasoft |
| Publisher(s) | Datasoft Tandy |
| Designer(s) | James Garon |
| Programmer(s) | Color Computer James Garon Ralph Burris Steve Bjork Atari 8-bit Frank Cohen[1] Apple II Brian Mountford |
| Platform(s) | TRS-80 Color Computer, Atari 8-bit, Apple II |
| Release | 1982: CoCo, Atari 1983: Apple |
| Genre(s) | Graphic adventure |
| Mode(s) | 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.[2] It was licensed to Tandy Corporation and was the first disk-only game for the Color Computer sold by RadioShack.[2] 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.