Atari 800 Pharaoh's Curse (Synapse)

[chfriend]

The cassette loading part of your description could have been written by me. I remember leaving the computer on for days once because the game loaded without an error.

[VegasPoker]

brings back many childhood memories :)

i never got anywhere on this damn game but i still continued to play it once a week or so haha

[49ernation1]

looking for this game for a month now asked my sister and dad for the name Katherine Lower-Balazs

[kaszubowa]

Awesome game!

[wandererlain]

Classic example of gameplay over content. Lots of fun this game but was hard to know where to go and you had to time falling down that slope right. Reminds me of Caverns of Khafka a bit.

[Gigas0101]

this game + 3 years of atari = I STILL HAVE NOT BEAT IT! I miss this game and my atari dearly, I used to fear the egyptian guy and his "egyptian kung-fu dance walk"

[Xebelan]

This was one of my favorite games as a kid. I still play it occasionally. Did you know there's a double jump in the game? It knocks the archaeologist's shoes off and gives you some extra height. I think it's double hit on the trigger and holding diagonal up (in what direction you're going) as you jump

[KyaputenHarokku]

The most annoying thing about this game was the bird which flew you to a random screen, stealing your key if you collected one.

And, you even lost your key when walking through a previously opened door.

This deep humming in the background added quite some dramaturgy back then, you knew when enemies would enter the screen.

Absolutely GREAT game.

[theciscoguy]

An all time classic. It really bugged me that I did not complete it in my youth so I have been playing it on Atari800WinPlus.

I completed it last night - finally!!!!

Shame it took me until I was 39 !!

The next atari classic on my list of must complete is 'Gyruss'... wish me luck ;-)

[trophy242]

I wish you luck :-)

[nyyterp]

Another great Synapse game! It had a little bit of everything -- a light shoot 'em up, some problem solving, and a treasure hunt. The random locations made each game slightly different than the previous.

In some ways the game was similar to Bruce Lee (released by a different company a year later), but both are great in their own way.

[geeza11]

Did this game only have 3 levels?

[gjeldrez]

I think so.

First time you completed the game, you got the password "SYN".

Second time: "SYNIST"

Third time: "SYNISTOPS"

After that, you got the same synistops password again and again.

Kinda frustrating :(

[KyaputenHarokku]

And it was always the same world, it was just getting faster. Nevertheless a great game with the funniest walking sound ever.

[0123caj]

Wow! Now this takes me back! I was just akid when I played this on my Atari 800XL. Thanks for the vid.

[JoeCat56]

THOSE were the best days! The games today have no soul.

Long live Synapse and the Atari computer series.

[willyoueatmyshorts]

Loved this one!

[kzsteele]

there was another game that kinda looked like this.. you could swing on a rope under a bell in one screen... damn, i wish i could remember that game. the colors were very similar

[shawbros]

"there was another game that kinda looked like this.. you could swing on a rope under a bell in one screen... damn, i wish i could remember that game. the colors were very similar"

Hunchback?

[RoboFH]

Quasimodo

[gazzaboy2531977]

quasimodo maybe ?

[momonari79]

I´m an Atari lover, and still have this on tape, so I can say with propierty: This is a very fun game to play!! (Although I need to wait with the beeps in every block...:D )

[Lightcycle]

This game was fun. Also easy to bug exploit.

[MadsterV]

loved this one!

[ercascott]

Where can I download this game?

[KyaputenHarokku]

Thanks for the vid! I loved this game back then when I was 9 and got my first Computer, an Atari 130XE! (And I found the sounds so funny which drove my parents nuts *g*)

[88mati88]

Man, i love this game :)

Together with Montezumas revenge, Zorro and Boulder Dash my fav on Atari :>

[crygus]

Thanks for posting this. I -loved- this game as a kid.

[JDonahue79]

I like this game, only I played it on the Commodore 64, and the sound on this one is much better than the Atari 800 one.

[KyaputenHarokku]

I don't agree here, I think the Atari sounds are much funnier, especially the "walking" sound.

[frickenjose]

one of my favs too. this and bruce lee

i almost beat this one.

[Ambrosine]

This was one of my absolute favorites. Thanks for the memories. Now, where did I put that disk...

[sw1tched]

man one of my favorite games ever.....still have it and my 800xl!!!! going to play it now!

[eccocid]

hahah it look slike they had ripped off the sprite from pitfall

[eyesauron]

where can i download it man need baddly it remember me my trippychildhood

[MaToMaStEr]

i remember i accidentaly found a combination of keys to press in my atari 800 xl, and the password to the levels appeared on the screen. It was always the same though but faster ... cool game

[MidnightBallSac]

i was trying to remember the name of this game for years and no one knew what i was talking about......SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lightcycle]

wow haven't seen this for Ia long time... I want my atari...

I like it how many areas you can shoot and jump towards a wall to either climb up it or go through it.

[steveasat2]

Frigging bat! Frigging pistol-packing pharaoh! Frigging Sarlacc pit! I had managed to somehow forget the 12-volt rage this game inspires. Still, SYNISTOPS, then and now.

[lashutterbug]

Man, Synapse Software had the best stable of games back then.

[icotech]

i remember heh

[invertedbeard]

the mummy on this game always seemed to commit suicide! lol

[jclaudio12]

LOL that is true, I think the mummy was blind. The bat was a piece of shit..

[Shintaka9009]

trippy