BINGO! I scoured the Atarimania database and finally did a search for the word "adventure" (after "quest" and "space" yielded nothing), which turned up a possibility, and then Google sealed the deal. Those bums at SSI couldn't even help me ID their own game all those years (and many tries) ago. It *...

A long lost friend of the family used to bring his Atari 800XL over and we played great RPGs and adventure games like Apshai and WIzard's Crown, Phantasie, Ultima and such. There was one game we played which I have never been able to figure out after years of searches. It was an RPG, in that you had...