Gemstone Warrior

Gemstone Warrior is an action role-playing game written by Paradigm Creators for the Apple II and published by Strategic Simulations in 1984. It is an action-adventure title set against a 2D screen with the player controlling an armored figure that they would move from area to area in search of treasure and the pieces of the stolen Gemstone. Gemstone Wariror was SSI's first game to sell over 50,000 copies in North America. The game was ported to the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family, and Macintosh. In addition, the games were ported to several Japanese sustems. It was followed by a 1986 sequel, Gemstone Healer, also created by Paradigm.