Bejeweled Blade Gem Quests! (FINISHED!)

[Koren]

Hmm, for the Agate of Technology... what about a search quest where you must play through multiple retro games, some of which are bugged or infested with rogue code and viruses, always recieving further hints towards the gem's location?

For instance:
Pac-Man. You take the role of Pac, collecting bits and pieces of code, items or what have you while being chased by a number of dangerous viruses. These viruses are too deeply ingrained into the game coding for you to just kill them, so you have to run. Imagine running through a dark and gloomy labyrinth, collecting stuff and never certain when the ghosts may come around the corner.
The bits of code or items form into a hint, pointing you towards the next game.

Pong. You are confronted by an armored knight who wears nearly invincible armor that is also enchanted to raise his magic powers. He creates magic darkballs which immediately kill you if they touch you, but you have found a shield of light that allows you to reflect those darkballs at him. Problem is, he has a shield too. You have to direct the ball at him and strip him of his armor before he can kill you. If you do so, he becomes unable to fight and reveals his knowledge so you spare him.

Age of Empires. You find yourself in a peaceful medieval environment with a group of stranded antivirus systems who have attempted to fight an enormously powerful virus overlord and his minions, but were defeated. You must help them by rebuilding their subsystems and allowing them to replicate themselves to create an army, to take the virus overlord on before he finds you and wipes you out. After their victory they open a path for you which was blocked before, that the virus overlord was trying to get through to, allowing you to proceed to the next game.

Mario Land. In a new land you are only able to move sideways, you must fight your way past the minions and traps of a rogue code that was scrapped from a modern D&D game campaign and takes the form of a dragon. After defeating the dragon itself you encounter the princess that it has held captive, to force her to reveal the hiding place of the "Royal Gem", which has given the princess's kingdom peace and prosperity (which is to say, flawless, virusless and very advanced code). Because they already are at tech levels far beyond the Dataverse limits anyway, she lets you have the gem, which turns out to be the Agate of Technology.

Very long quest, I know...

This is great, thanks, I'll be using some of this for the quest.