Hesperides immortal as long as he touched his mother, Gaia, the earth. Heracles killed Antaeus by holding him aloft and crushing him in a bearhug. Herodotus claims that Heracles stopped in Egypt, where King Busiris decided to make him the yearly sacrifice, but Heracles burst out of his chains. Finally making his way to the Garden of the Hesperides, Heracles tricked Atlas into retrieving some of the golden apples for him, by offering to hold up the heavens for a little while (Atlas was able to take them as, in this version, he was the father or otherwise related to the
The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate to designer Rick Gush, "Hand of Fate" was a commercial disappointment, with sales roughly 50% lower than its predecessor had achieved. He blamed this decrease on a "cryptic" advertising campaign directed by "an unbelievably arrogant new VP of marketing", who was fired from Virgin Interactive shortly after the launch. However, the game's later bundle SKU with "Fables and Fiends" and "Malcolm's Revenge" contributed "tens of thousands of copies to the sales totals in the first few months", Gush noted. The "Legend of Kyrandia" series as a whole, including "Hand of Fate", totaled above 250,000 units in sales by August 1996.