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Below the Root

Apple II

Release Date: December 31, 1984
Genres: Adventure, Platform
Themes: Fantasy
Game Type: Main game
Platforms: Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS
Game Modes: Single-player
Player Perspective: Side view, Text

Overview

Below the Root is an adventure game released in 1984 by Windham Classics, a division of Spinnaker Software. It is titled after Below the Root, the first of the Green Sky Trilogy of novels, written by Zilpha Keatley Snyder and published between 1975 and 1977. It is an early example of what later became known as the Metroidvania genre.