Pharaoh's Curse box art
Atari 2600

Pharaoh's Curse

1983 · TechnoVision · 1 player

About

The Pharaoh's Curse, or simply Pharaoh's Curse, is a 1983 platform adventure game written by Steve Coleman and published by Synapse Software for the Atari 8-bit family. It was ported to the Commodore 64 and VIC-20. In Pharaoh's Curse the player attempts to collect 16 treasures from an Egyptian tomb while avoiding the pharaoh, his mummy, and various traps. Coleman also wrote Rainbow Walker for Synapse, published the same year. John Szczepaniak, writing for GamesTM magazine, called The Pharaoh's Curse an early example of what later became known as the Metroidvania genre.

Gallery

Pharaoh's Curse — Box front
Box front
Pharaoh's Curse — Box back
Box back
Pharaoh's Curse — Title screen
Title screen
Pharaoh's Curse — Screenshot
Screenshot

Details

Developer
TechnoVision
Publisher
TechnoVision
Players
1
Release Date
January 1, 1983
System
Atari 2600

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