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Tutankham
Sign in to saveis a 1982 arcade video game developed and released by Konami and released by Stern in North America. Named after the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, the game combines a maze shoot 'em up with light puzzle-solving elements. It debuted at the European ATE and IMA amusement shows in January 1982 before releasing worldwide in Summer 1982. The game was a critical and commercial success and was ported to home systems by Parker Brothers.
Game details · IGDB
Tutankham is a combination of the maze, action and shoot 'em up genres. Taking on the role of an explorer grave robbing Tutankhamun's tomb, the player is chased by creatures such as asps, vultures, parrots, bats, dragons, and even curses, all that kill the player on contact. The explorer can fight back by firing lasers at the creatures, but he can only cover the left and right directions. The player is also endowed with a single screen-clearing "flash bomb" per level or life. Finally, each level has warp zones that teleport the player around the level, which enemies cannot use. To progress…
- Released
- 1982
- Genres
- Shooter, Platform, Puzzle
- Platforms
- Commodore VIC-20, ColecoVision, Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, Web browser, Intellivision, Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000, NEC PC-6000 Series, Texas Instruments TI-99
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Engine
- PICO-8
- Developer
- Konami
- Publisher
- Stern Electronics, Parker Brothers, Konami
Internet Archive
moviesComputer Commercial: Tutankham (1982)(Parker Brothers)(FR).mp4
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- publication date
- 2024-05-09
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- Gameplay
- Ports
- Reception
- Legacy
- Clones
- Influence
- See also
- References
- External links
is a 1982 arcade video game developed and released by Konami and released by Stern in North America. Named after the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, the game combines a maze shoot 'em up with light puzzle-solving elements. It debuted at the European ATE and IMA amusement shows in January 1982 before releasing worldwide in Summer 1982. The game was a critical and commercial success and was ported to home systems by Parker Brothers.
Armed with a laser weapon that only fires horizontally, the player loots the maze-like Egyptian tomb of Tutankhamun while finding keys to locked chambers and fighting off creatures. Tutankham is one of six games in a group photograph published in the January 1983 issue LIFE along with the record holder for each. The Tutankham champion in the photo is Mark Robichek of Mountain View, California.