It was designed by Dallas Snell for the Apple II and was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and Mac.

The game takes place in a medieval fantasy setting in the Kingdom of Balema as a dragon threatens its citizens.

The game is played largely by nonlinear exploration and finding important items to allow the player to complete the objective.

When the game was brought to Penguin Software, some of its content was deemed slightly too mature for publication and was subsequently "toned down" for its release.

[3] Softline wrote, "It looks like Penguin Software has really done it: adventure game with beautiful hi-res graphics, a great plot, and sneaky surprises!