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3 | ''Tutankham'' is a 1982 dungeon-crawling action-adventure game by Creator/{{Konami}}, licensed in the United States by Creator/SternElectronics. Legend has it that the game was supposed to be titled 'UsefulNotes/{{Tutankhamun}}', but the last two letters didn't fit on the arcade cabinet. |
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5 | The player explores a tomb to find hidden treasure, while fending off endless waves of enemies with a laser gun which can only fire horizontally. The treasures are a map, a sacred urn, a treasure chest, and King Tut's death mask. |
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7 | Though not one of Konami's more popular arcade games, it was ported by Parker Brothers to many platforms, including the Platform/{{Atari 2600}}, Platform/VIC20, Platform/{{Intellivision}} and Platform/{{Colecovision}}. Parker Brothers also made prototype versions for the Platform/{{Odyssey 2}}, Platform/Atari8BitComputers and Platform/TI99 that went unreleased due to MediaNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 that removed them from the video game industry. |
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10 | !!Tropes: |
11 | * AdventurerArchaeologist: The player character is obviously one of these. |
12 | * CoolGate: Warp portals in several places allow the player easy passage between the top and bottom halves of the level. |
13 | * [[DenialOfDiagonalAttack Denial of Vertical Attack]]: The player can only fire to the left or right. |
14 | * EndlessGame: The game loops after 16 stages. |
15 | * EverythingIsTryingToKillYou |
16 | * InterchangeableAntimatterKeys: Keys are one-use, though the player can only carry one at a time. |
17 | * LevelMapDisplay: Shown at the top of the screen in the arcade version. |
18 | * MookMaker: Enemies spawn in droves from alcoves in the walls. |
19 | * NintendoHard: Good luck getting past the 2nd level. |
20 | * ReformulatedGame: Because it wasn't capable of smooth horizontal scrolling, the Atari 2600 version's levels instead scroll vertically. This makes the game ''much'' harder, since it keeps the left/right-shooting limitation despite your progression not being oriented in those directions. |
21 | * SmartBomb: "Flash bombs" can be used to take out all enemies on the screen. |
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