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Below the Root

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First release
1984
Genres
Adventure, Platform · Fantasy
Platforms
DOS, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Apple II

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.

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Release dates
DOS
1984
Commodore C64/128/MAX
1984
Apple II
1984
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Side view, Text
Keywords
interactive fiction, metroidvania, based on - book, racism, mind control
… All 8, gliding, telekinesis, utopian civilization
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IGDB · recorded 12 Oct 2026

Language data: IGDB · recorded 12 Oct 2026