Game History - Joust - 1983
In Joust, players take control of a knight with a lance who rides their flying
ostrich (or stork, for Player 2) to do battle against computer-controlled evil
knights who ride atop vultures.
Players must flap their steed's wings to hit the enemy from a higher jousting
point to destroy the vulture and its rider. Once the enemy has been hit, an egg
falls to one of the platforms below. The heroic knights must destroy the eggs
before they hatch and release new and increasingly more difficult knights. The
three strengths of enemy knights are Bounder (red knight), Hunter (white knight),
and Shadow Lord (blue knight). These enemy knights are not the only challenge to
be found in the game. Players must also contend with crumbling platforms, lava
trolls who attempt to pull knights into the fire, and the dreaded "unbeatable"(?) pterodactyl.
The game was novel for its time for being one of the few two-player simultaneous games in the arcade.
Game history from Moby Games
Game created by Williams Electronics, Inc. in 1983
File Download - Joust-1983.zip