Oh Mummy
arcade game for Commodore 64, 2025
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You have been appointed head of an
archeological expedition, sponsored
by the British Museum, and have been
sent to Egypt to explore newly found
pyramids.
Your party, initially, consists of
five members. Your task is to enter
the five levels of each pyramid, and
recover from them five Royal Mummies
an as much treasure as you can.
Each level has already been partly
uncovered by local workers and it is
up to your team to finish the dig.
Unfortunately, the workers digging
aroused Guardians left behind by the
ancient Egyption Pharoahs to protect
their royal tombs.
Each level has 2 Guardian Mummies,
one lies hidden while the other goes
in search of the intruders.
The partly excavated levels are in
the form of a grid made up of twenty
'boxes'.
To uncover a 'box', move your team
along the four sides of the box from
each corner to the next.
Not all boxes need to be uncovered
to enable you to go throught the Exit
and into the next level.
Each level contains, ten Treasure
boxes, six empty boxes, and the rest
hold a Royal Mummy, a Guardian Mummy
a Key and a Scroll.
If you uncover the box holding the
Guardian Mummy, it will dig it's way
out and persue you. Being caught by
a Guardian Mummy kills one member of
your team and the Mummy, unless that
is, you have uncovered the Scroll.
The Magic Scroll will allow you to
be caught by a Guardian, without any
only on the level on which found, it
will only destroy one Guardian.
There are two ways to gain points,
one is by uncovering the Royal Mummy
the other, by uncovering Treasure.
When the boxes holding the Key and
the Royal Mummy have been uncovered,
Any remaining Guardians will be able
to follow you onto the next level.
After completing all 5 levels of a
pyramid you will, when you leave the
fifth level, move to level 1, of the
next pyramid.
When you have completed a pyramid,
your success will be rewarded either
by bonus points or the arrival of an
extra member for your team.
The Guardians in the next pyramid,
having been warned by those you have
escaped from, will be more alert, so
although the Guardians cannot follow
you from one pyramid to the next, it
will pay to be even more careful.
You can control your team by using
either a Joystick, or the Keyboard.
The keyboard keys are :-
W - Up S - Down A - Left D - Right
The game has 5 skill levels, these
determine how 'clever' the Guardians
are at the beginning of a game. You
may choose between 5 different speed
levels, from moderate to murderous.
May Ankh-Sun-Ahmun guide your steps ..
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Some useful keyboard shortcuts
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[PAUSE] - stop/continue game
[F9] - quick load game state
[F12] - quick save game state (still stored after leaving the site)
[F11] - toggle fullscreen mode
[ScrollLock] - quick switch control ports
[PageDown] - make a screenshot (320x200)