Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Galahad and the Holy Grail was a best-selling computer game for the Atari 800 series in 1982. It was programmed by Douglas Crockford and published by the Atari Program Exchange.The game design was heavily influenced by Adventure for the Atari 2600, and contained references to that as well as many other popular games of the day. The subject matter was no doubt inspired by the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail—one of the objects found in the game is a "holy hand grenade."Crockford originally named the game Knightsoil, but after Atari learned that "nightsoil" was a euphemism for excrement it proposed changing the name to "Launcelot and the Holy Grail". Because Launcelot never found the Holy Grail, Crockford proposed Galahad and the Holy Grail. Besides selling well, the game caused Chris Crawford to hire Crockford at Atari Inc... }
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- Galahad_and_the_Holy_Grail abstract "Galahad and the Holy Grail was a best-selling computer game for the Atari 800 series in 1982. It was programmed by Douglas Crockford and published by the Atari Program Exchange.The game design was heavily influenced by Adventure for the Atari 2600, and contained references to that as well as many other popular games of the day. The subject matter was no doubt inspired by the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail—one of the objects found in the game is a "holy hand grenade."Crockford originally named the game Knightsoil, but after Atari learned that "nightsoil" was a euphemism for excrement it proposed changing the name to "Launcelot and the Holy Grail". Because Launcelot never found the Holy Grail, Crockford proposed Galahad and the Holy Grail. Besides selling well, the game caused Chris Crawford to hire Crockford at Atari Inc..".