Aztec; fast playthrough on highest difficulty; Apple II

[MyBestAnswers]

I had this when I was about 10. I never figured out that you could use dynamite on the walls to get through. I didn't make it very far in this game but I loved it, and I never forgot how awesome it was to play on my Apple II e. My screen was black and green though. Wow, this brings me back, thanks for posting!!!!

[CarMoves]

There were so many bugs in the game.

I remember you could die, and you body would be laying in mid-air ;-)

[MyBestAnswers]

@CarMoves LOL! Also you could sand on top of the allegators and let them carry you. Haha!

[CarMoves]

I loved this game, but only played it on a green monitor.

It's funny to see it in color.

[Sorrowfulconscious21]

My favorite game on the APPLE II e hands DOWN!!!

[MetallicBill]

I would say one of the first games our family had for the Apple, I still have mine as well, and I will say, it's nearly impossible to avoid pirated software in that day and age. It was fervently traded

[Falagar517]

ahhh, this takes me back. unfortunately I don't think they'll ever release this game on Xblox Live Arcade. I would get this game in a heart beat. had it on the apple IIe

[AndrewInCA]

@Falagar517 There's an Apple IIe emulator that you can load on your PC and play this game -- it's awesome.

[Falagar517]

@Falagar517 Thanks for the tip :)

[fcoppola70]

hahhaha! ... rockstar!... let's remember the kids that Aztec was played with no joystick but with the keyboard, I think about 12 different keys had to be used in order to walk, run, jump, climb, shoot, use the sword etc... Perhaps you should upload on youtube the "help" window of the game that was an absolute nightmare to remember, I had to check it everytime I started the game!

Tks for uploading this, excellent memories playing Aztec!

[JMcH]

2:25 - Finally takes the stairs! lol!

[randy0987]

DROP THE DYNAMITE ON THE OCTOPUS!!!

[mbtemlett]

I used to have this game on c64 never managed to get anywhere with it

good memories though

thanks for posting, now I know you can actually retrieve the idol and win the game..

[SparklesofUnity]

one of the oldest and the best apple II game ever made:

AZTEC!!

[MetallicBill]

@SparklesofUnity Indiana Jones is one of the best stories, and inspired this I'm sure! haha

[sonick808]

one of the best games EVER

[SparklesofUnity]

@sonick808 Amen to that baby.

Love aztec, great game.

[awwsadface]

Holy Jesus. I haven't played this game in like 10 years. It's still sitting in a box of floppy disks in my basement.

[asgerms]

Anybody understand the meaning of the graphics in the lower left part of the screen? The filled/hollow dots seem to change depending on where the "hero" is, but how to interpret it?

[AndrewInCA]

Amen brother -- I've wondered that myself. Anyone?

[becomeanolive]

This is an excellent game. I have completed the Commodore 64 version on the highest difficulty (8). A true classic that is different every time you play it, they don't make them like this anymore.

[GreenGestalt]

I loved that game!

Have you seen it's modern "Equivilant/Spiritual Secessor" - "Spelunky"?

[lheinric]

Thanks for the memories! I loved that game so very very much.

[CarMoves]

I think I was in junior high when i played this -- there were soooo many bugs in it, it was classic.

the dynamite was the best

[xoen6]

true madman ye art.

respect.

[Network23549]

I loved this on the C=64, me and a friend took turns over the day to complete it.

[mightyelroy]

It has been YEARS since I played this. Oh, the sweet memories! Thanks for posting!

[asgerms]

It was a *great* game. I remember how we would use all the programming bugs in the game to our advantage; like if you got trapped, you'd go stand right next to a wall, draw the machette and then you'd fall through to the next level.

[lylyeoh]

The bugs were so fun.

Slash your way through walls with the machete.

"fly" by switching to the machete or pistol and then hold down autorepeat while moving.

Can also climb up boxes to the next level and then up on the "tapestry" or aztech head (if you fall I think in some cases you can wrap around and fall back to the top floor!)

Or fall through to the next level by climbing on stuff then crawling and falling thru.

Dynamite was fun too - if I remember right there can only be one lit stick...

[sonick808]

aztec!!!!!!! one of the best games EVER made, EVER, top 10 of all time! maybe even top 5. Crawling to plant a grenade behind an octopus. Oh man good times.

[SamuraiClinton]

The controls were awkward for this game!

I was only in elementary school when I first played this!

[peregrin666]

Anyone know what that tapestry thing on the bottom left was? It changed as you went from room to room. Or level to level.

[mornay77]

I could never kill anything with the damn machette.

[OneAngryPixel]

lol :) Same here! That thing was rubbish.

[becomeanolive]

This is one of the best games of all-time. Every time you play it's a different game, it has it all: diverse weapons, strategy, action etc.

I prefer the commodore 64 version.

[DerInquizitor]

Excellent ! This game was fun, scary and hard..a long time ago. I'd like top play it again ;-)

[mrrjenkims]

There's actually a much quicker way to do this. It's actually taking advantage of the bugs in the game (as you say in the info section). Climb up on the first stair on a set of stairs and then pause for a second. Then go into the ducked position, you will actually drop to the next level. You can even do this on non-stair items (like a chest) once you get the hang of it. Fast as lightening!

[lylyeoh]

For a quick way of going up if you climb up the stairs to the next level above, when you appear below still on the stairs, stop and then crawl, you will fall through to the top of that same level... The trouble with that is I believe the more falls you have the more damaged the idol gets and the lower the score.

You can also climb up boxes on the top floor to the tapestry or head on the next level above.

Flying and walking through walls was fun too.

Good times, good times :).

[ninamaya]

I loved this game, kept me playing for hours... maybe because it was so quirky and random but at the same time challenging and with lots of surprises ;)

[kzsteele]

the pistol was the shit.. the dynamite was good, too. this game is slightly different looking than the one i played, tho. the colors were only in red and white. hmmm

[kzsteele]

the big dinosaurs were scary to me

[rayz0rz]

Lol what is this crap? xD

Seems like a cool old game!^^

[yourtubeyourass21]

THIS GAME OWNS MAN. ALOT OF MEMORY

[Glopdemon]

God, those giant spiders always scared the crap out of me as a little kid.

[AlbertaGamer]

LOL

I LOVE IT

You cheated with all the same bugs that I used.

[jepumplebass]

i was playing this the other day. it seemed to be way better when i was a kid. all i remember is "you did not make it" after the walls would close in on me and drown me or something. awesome vid. what did you use to capture the video/sound?

[chaos5482]

I used Camtasia Studio

[sirgarence]

I used to love playing this game. It was so so buggy, and the ending was absolute rubbish, but it was still awesome.

[Kand1nSky]

This looks almost like the Atair 8-Bit Version, except the crappy sound. ;^)

But i do not remember any spiders in the Game... #k.

[knchen]

Thanks for posting this! Never been able to finish this either. Kind of a weak ending though.

[bluemountain555]

Great video. I was never able to get far in this game so thanks for showing me how it ended.

[phynnboi]

I used to play this game a lot on the C64. It was more fun adventuring for bugs than it was for the idol! In the C64 version, you can use dynamite on the first screen to open a hole directly to the idol floor. Then it's just a matter of getting out.

[Choachito]

I can't tell you how many hours I played this game. amazingly, I don't know how I never found that in-between screen crawling glitch to get to a lower level.

at 6:26, how did you know there was an invisible staircase?

[chaos5482]

The crouching trick sure is useful. Lunging with the machette between screens also works.

It's not an invisible staircase. I open the box and climb on top of it (also works with trash heaps). A bug in the game then allows you to continue climbing on the graphics of the next screen. It only works on the left half of the screen and on the far right, for obvious reasons.

[MetallicBill]

@chaos5482 I never completed too many games, ever, but the odd thing is text and graphics just merging in this era of game design and for Apple's method, the color always blooms! Nasty in hindsight, but a willing tradeoff for the pleasure of gaming at home, for free!!

[lylyeoh]

@chaos5482

Walk through walls by using the machete to stab through. "fly" when in machete/gun mode (hold repeat or auto-repeat). climb on box then fly over small snakes. Fall from the lower level stairs to the top of the screen by crouching (but damages the idol). Plant 1 dynamite to put out a lit one elsewhere onscreen.Fall through floor by climbing one step on stair/box/item/creature then crouch and drop.The game is fun because of the bugs/features!

[AndrewInCA]

@lylyeoh Sweet -- I never knew about the crouch-on-bottom-steps, land-on-upper-level trick. I had to try it out and it works great!