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Name that game!

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First post, by Charles

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Okay, I don’t know where else to ask this, but there’s a game I vaguely remember playing in my youth, who’s name I cannot for the life of me remember.

I played the game back in circa 1986, and I’m pretty sure it was a PC, as opposed to an Amiga or Apple, or whatever else was available at the time.

The game’s basic premise: You are an archiologist, or adventurer or something like that, who goes about exploring an ancient pyramid. There are only two things I remember about the game. The first screen involved your guy (about 2 inches high, say? and your basic stick figure) going down into a pyramid. And I remember my friend and I would frequently get stuck in dead-ends, where quicksand would slowly rise from some kinda pipe, and drown us.

It may also have involved Wombats, but then again, that could just be a different game I’m confusing in.

I don’t remember if this was a text adventure-type game, with accompanying ansi graphics, or if it was a explor-action game.

Does anybody even vaguely remember this game, and what it was called?

Reply 1 of 3, by HunterZ

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My best guess is Pharaoh's Tomb by Apogee: http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=823
Other games that come to mind are Golden Wombat of Destiny (a text-only interactive fiction adventure) and Montezuma's Revenge.

Reply 3 of 3, by Charles

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Yeah, I’d have to say that Aztec is probably it. I mean, it’s hard to tell from that screenshot, since I was used to it being in black and white, but I do believe that is the game I was thinking about.

Thank you so very much. This has been niggling at the back of my mind for a long time now.