A long time ago, in a very different city, with very much younger children (two of them were, oddly enough, exactly as much younger as the time of which I’m thinking is distant; the third was not yet among us), the lads and I used to spend ages and ages playing Scarab of Ra, what was then a fabulously sophisticated shareware adventure game, a first-person shooter (although one only had tranquilizer darts to inconvenience the lions and snakes and mischievous monkeys). It was a labyrinth game, with a different layout for each level, each game. Full, rich, black and white only, of course.
I hadn’t thought about it for ages, till this afternoon Nate IM’ed me with only a URI: Semicolon Software. . . .
It runs fine in Classic, too. . . .
Posted by AKMA at November 18, 2003 08:30 PM | TrackBackI remember that game! It used to drive me nuts!
There was another, later shooter for the Mac that took place in some kind of pyramid. Some kind of weird Wolfenstein meets ancient Egypt thing, with banshees and stuff. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called...
Posted by: Chris Tessone at November 19, 2003 03:06 AMthe mummy was so terrifying that the shrieks of anxiety began as soon as you even found the scarab, just because you knew the mummy would appear any second. in fact the terror was so strong that now, 15 years later, i still felt pretty uneasy from just seeing the graphics again..
Posted by: nathaniel at November 19, 2003 01:16 PMHours and hours of fun, thanks for posting that link.
Posted by: dave at December 18, 2003 01:07 PMHello
Posted by: eMule at January 13, 2004 11:14 AM