Tutankhamen's Tomb

An explorer is trapped somewhere in the tunnels of the Pharaoh's tomb, a block ten squares high, ten wide and ten deep inside Egypt's greatest pyramid, with only a little air. He is knocking on the side of the tomb, and you follow the sound. Stone muffles it: each part of the answer, above or below and left or right, is heard correctly only seven times in ten, though ahead or behind always comes through. Each move takes one minute, and you must reach him within twenty.

The front view shows the tunnels at every depth, and a gauge at the right shows how deep you are. Your torch lights the blocks around you, and squares you have crossed stay marked. The ColecoVision version lets you hear the knocks as well as read them, louder as you come nearer, cuts the book's long opening text to its essentials on the rules page, and adds new music (Valley of the Kings) and sound effects.

Controls: either joystick. The stick moves you up, down, left or right; the left button goes forward (deeper) and the right button goes back. The keypad is not used.

ColecoVision version credited in the source to Amy Bienvenu for Amy Studio, written in Amy, her own language, 2026: an adaptation of a BASIC program from Tim Hartnell's Giant Book of Computer Games (Ballantine Books, 1984; first published by Interface Publications, 1983). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.