Montezuma's Revenge (computer game)

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Montezuma's Revenge
Studio Robert Jaeger
Publisher Parker Brothers
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 1983
platform Apple II , Atari 2600 , Atari 5200 , Atari 800 , ColecoVision , Commodore 64 , DOS , Sega Master System , ZX Spectrum
genre Jump 'n' run
Game mode Single player
control joystick
system advantages
preconditions		 48 kB RAM
medium Floppy disk , cartridge
language English

Montezuma's Revenge is acomputer game developedby Robert Jaeger from 1983.

The title of the game refers to the slang term for traveler's diarrhea for traveling to Mexico. Montezuma's Revenge was one of the first platform games , it combines treasure and key hunts in several rooms arranged like a maze.

Game content

The player controls a character named Panama Joe and moves him room by room inside the Aztec temple of Montezuma II. This is filled with enemies, obstacles, traps and other dangers. The goal is to collect gems along the way. Panama Joe has to find keys to doors as well as torches, swords and amulets without losing his life. Obstacles are laser barriers, treadmills, disappearing floors and fire pits. The play figure can run, jump, shimmy on chains and slide down slide bars . Enemies are skulls, snakes and spiders. Another difficulty arises from the fact that the temple is dark on its lowest floor (or with increasing difficulty also on higher floors) as long as no torch has been collected.

The pyramid is nine levels deep, on the lowest level there is an exit to the treasury. There the player has a few seconds to jump from chain to chain and collect the precious stones. If these disappear, he can jump to a sliding pole and land in the starting area of ​​the next difficulty level.

successor

In 1997 Utopia Technologies created a 3D version called Montezuma's Return! developed.

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