EarthWorld Contest Entry
ATARI DARES YOU TO SOLVE THE $150,000 SWORDQUEST CHALLENGE
!
Win Jewel Encrusted Prizes and an Expense-Paid Trip
to the Kingdom of Atari.
Receive an Atari Certificate of Merit for your individual
playing skill.
Once again, Atari has created a first for video game players.
The $150,000 SWORDQUEST CHALLENGE...
a series of four fun contests to reward your playing skill.
Are you up to the challenge? You only have until March
15, 1983 to enter the EarthWorld contest, so start now.
Here's how.
Four new, original adventure game programs comprise the
Atari SWORDQUEST series... EarthWorld, FireWorld, WaterWorld and AirWorld...
scheduled for release at different times between Fall, 1982 and Fall, 1983.
These game cartridge packages will contain a SWORDQUEST
CHALLENGE Contest leaflet like this one, which provides the rules and entry
instructions for each different game's contest segment of this overall
Atari "Challenge" event.
This particular leaflet provides you with an opportunity
to participate in the EarthWorld Contest.
Please read its rules carefully before you enter because
only one entry is permitted per person in each
SWORDQUEST CHALLENGE Contest segment.
In all, $150,000 worth of prizes will be awarded... a
Grand Prize of an original $25,000 jewel encrusted creation to the ultimate
winner in each of the 4 separate contest segments (see drawings), plus
a special $50,000 Sword prize to the National Champion in a Grand Finale
Contest.
Further, each valid entry that provides one (or more)
correct answer(s) will be acknowledge with a suitable-for-framing ATARI
SWORDQUEST CHALLENGE CERTIFICATE which rates your skill level as a
player in our new game series.
Enter soon...see how you "rate" with Atari today!
Copyright 1982 Atari, Inc. All rights reserved
1. Your success in the play of this new Atari video adventure game
depends on your ability to progress through the Earthworld Kingdom. Proper
progress will uncover "number clues" on the screen that lead
to "word clues" in the DC booklet which accompanies your cartridge.
Part of the analysis and reasoning required in this contest will involve
your making correct choices among these clues... specifically, while there
are ten "word clues", only five are correct. One more clue, found
in the DC booklet will be of help in determining which "word clues"
are the correct ones.
2. Clearly print those five "word clues" you believe to be
the correct ones on the EarthWorld Contest Entry Form provided as part
of the leaflet and, together with your name and complete address, mail
your completed Entry Form in time for receipt by March 15, 1983 to: Atari
"EarthWorld Contest." P.O. Box 8900, Westport, CT 06888.
3. Everyone's entry will be individually graded for correct answers.
If you have determined and furnished one or more of the correct "word
clues," your entry will be acknowledge with an OFFICIAL ATARI SWORDQUEST
CHALLENGE CERTIFICATE OF MERIT which will be "rated" according
to a different skill designation for 1-2 correct answers, 3-4 correct answers,
or all 5 correct answers.
4. Entrants who supply all five correct "word clues" will
compete in a play-off to determine the winner of the Grand Prize for the
EarthWorld Contest. The play-off will be held at Atari's headquarters in
Sunnyvale, California. Atari will pay for the travel expense of the play-off
contestants, consisting of roundtrip airfare to San Francisco from the
airport nearest the contestant's home-originating city, ground transportation
to Sunnyvale, two nights' lodging near Atari's headquarters, transfers,
and meals.
5. In the likely event that more than 50 entrants provide all five
correct "word clues", tying contestants will be required to complete
a statement dealing with what they like about the Atari EarthWorld game
as a tie-breaker basis for the judges' determination of the 50 winners
of play-off trips to California. Tie-breaking statement-completion entries
will be judged on the basis of originality, sincerity, and aptness of though.
Duplicate prizes will be awarded in the event of further ties. This tie-breaker
contest shall be administered to qualifying contestants by mail following
the March 15, 1983 deadline for receipt of EarthWorld entries. Any play-off
trip winner under the age of 18 will be entitled to an additional roundtrip
plane ticket at Atari's expense, to enable his/her accompaniment by one
parent or legal guardian.
6. The play-off to be held at Atari's headquarters will consist of
a time-measured skill competition among the field of finalists to play
and solve a new special-edition Atari adventure game, similar in nature
to the original EarthWorld game, which has been prepared exclusively for
purpose of the play-off. The first contestant to furnish this new game's
correct answers shall be declared the winner of the EarthWorld Contest's
Grand Prize; a special, one-of-a-kind EarthWorld Medallion, forged from
valuable metals, inlaid with sparkling gems, designed and created for Atari
by Franklin Mint at a cost of $25,000.
7. Following the conclusion of all four separate contest segments,
the respective Grand Prize Winners will be invited back to Atari headquarters
(at Atari's expense) to complete against one another in a Grand Finale
Contest to determine the SWORDQUEST CHALLENGE National Championship. Again,
a new special-edition Atari adventure game will be simultaneously provided
for these players to solve on a time-measured skill basis. The first contestant
to furnish the new game's correct answers shall win a jewelled Sword prize,
also exclusively fashioned for Atari by Franklin Mint at a cost of $50,000.
GENERAL CONDITIONS
Challenge open to any U.S. resident except employees of
Atari, its advertising and promotional agencies, the judging firm, and
their immediate families. Only one entry per person in each separate SWORDQUEST
CHALLENGE Contest Segment. (This is the EarthWorld Contest segment.) Duplicate
entries will be eliminated by computer and multiple Certificates of Merit
will not be issued.
All entries must by submitted on Official SWORDQUEST CHALLENGE
Contest Entry Forms, or photocopies thereof, and should be sent via first
class mail.
Allow 4-6 weeks following entry for receipt of your Challenge
Certificate of Merit by return mail. Atari assumes no responsibility for
lost, misdirected, or late mail.
Entries will be graded by AMA, Ltd., an independent judging
organization,
who shall also administer and judge the statement-completion
tie-breaker (if necessary).
The decisions of the judges shall be final in all matters
relating to this contest. No correspondence will be entered into, and entries
bearing no correct "word clue" answers will not be acknowledged
or returned.
Except for incidental help from families and friends,
entries must be wholly the by-product of the analytical skill and game
play of the person submitting the Official Entry Form. Outside, mechanical,
computer, or compensated assistance is expressly precluded by the spirit
of this contest and, if employed, will provide cause for declaring such
entries ineligible.
All entries become the property of Atari, Inc. and cannot
be returned. Federal, State, and local government regulations apply. Offer
void whenever prohibited or restricted by law.
Winners of trip prizes and any of the jeweled prizes will
be required to execute an affidavit of eligibility, a travel release, and
a release granting Atari, Inc. the right to use their names and likenesses
in advertising. No substitution or transfer of prizes permitted. Taxes
on prize winnings are solely the responsibility of the winners.
For a list of major prize winners in this contest segment,
available no later than August, 1983, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope
to: EarthWorld Winners, c/o AMA, P.O. Box 5071, Westport, CT 06881, by
June 30, 1983.
(Please do not send entries to this address.)
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