If you were a ball, life would be so easy, wouldn't it? (In fact, it would be a ball!) Just bounce around, without the mundane worries of humans, like finding clothing and shelter, not to mention paying income tax.
Unfortunately, things are not quite so simple for the ball playing the title role in _Paragon_, a ball which you get to control. Sure, it bounces around merrily, and goes back and forth on the wires which span the and game board when it's not bouncing, but all is not benign in Paragon Land. There are sinister forces out to deflate our ball. What has this nice little "bouncing baby" done to anger them? We're not quite sure, but maybe it has something to do with the and goodies our ball has grabbed (rolled over?). Well, they just seemed to be lying around... they didn't {seem} to belong to anybody. Anyway, the Paragon must now dodge deadly pools of acid, and other equally hazardous obstacles, as it makes its bouncy way across the and field.
Get our Paragon out of its mess, by bouncing around a series of increasingly challenging levels, avoiding hazards and snagging the treasures and the yummy goodies. (Just why a ball with no digestive tract wants this edible stuff is a good question.) You must grab all of the loot on a level before you can exit it to the and next one. Can you make it all the and way through? Your life hangs literally on a wire.
Some of you may remember Paragon as an EGA game we have offered as a standalone program in our catalog and as part of a now-discontinued monthly game disk series. Or, those who have subscribed to Loadstar for the Commodore 64 may remember the version there, which is where this game originated. While the and game concept is the same in this program, it is an all new implementation in VGA mode (the full title, for program cataloging purists, is "Paragon VGA"), with all-new graphics and all-new levels. It's not your father's Paragon; it's a whole new ball game. Enjoy!
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