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The most epic gaming event in history.

 

It goes like this, there were 4 games. Each game had a prize valued at 25,000 dollars.

 

Prizes:

 

Earthworld:

 

The Talisman was made of 18K solid gold, with 12 diamonds and the birthstones of the twelve Zodiac signs embedded in it, as well as a small sword made of white gold attached to the front. At the time of the contest, the Talisman was valued at $25,000.

Fireworld:

 

The Chalice was made of gold and platinum and was adorned with citrines, diamonds, green jade, pearls, rubies, and sapphires. It was valued at $25,000 at the time of the contest.

Waterworld:

 

The winner of this contest was supposed to win the "Crown of Life," which was made of gold and encrusted with aquamarines, diamonds, green tourmalines, rubies, and sapphires. It was valued at $25,000 when the game came out. As the contest was never held because of the great video game crash, it is very likely that the Crown of Life grand prize is now owned by Jack Tramiel.

 

Airworld:

 

Airworld was never finished (although two prototypes are widely rumored to exist), but according to programmer Tod Frye, its room structure was going to be based upon the I Ching. Additionally, Tod Frye was planning on representing each room from 0 to 63 with a six-bit number. Each bit would control a different aspect of the rules for that room (e.g., whether the player had to avoid or capture the enemies, whether the enemies attacked or avoided the player, whether the player or the enemies moved fast or slow) but this concept never got out of the design phase, and yielded some unplayable combinations, such as a slow player that had to capture fast moving enemies that avoided the player.

 

The winner of this contest was supposed to win a "Philosopher's Stone," which in this case was a large chunk of white jade in a 18K gold box encrusted with diamonds, emeralds, citrines, and rubies, valued at $25,000. As this game was never even finished, it is very likely that the Philosopher's Stone grand prize is now owned by Jack Tramiel. The four winners of all four game contests were also supposed to compete for a jewel encrusted sword valued at $50,000. The sword is rumored to be hanging in the living room of Tramiel, though there's no evidence to validate this claim.

 

 

It was a sad ending to what could of been the greatest video game event in history.

 

The Crown of Life, Philosophers Stone, and the sword belongs to gamers, not Jack Tramiel.

 

I copied a bunch of stuff from Wiki:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordquest

 

Discuss.