Lost Tomb

This article is about the 1982 video game. For the 2015 web series, see The Lost Tomb.
Lost Tomb
Home port box cover
Developer(s)Stern Electronics
Publisher(s)Stern Electronics
Datasoft (ports)
Programmer(s)Arcade
Dan Lee[1]
Apple II
Larry Lewis
Atari 8-bit
Bruce Adelstein[2]
Commodore 64
Mark Brodie
Troy Lyndon
Robert Bobbio[3]
IBM PC
Larry Lewis
Artist(s)Whitney Caughlan (C64)[3]
Platform(s)Arcade, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, IBM PC
Release1982: Arcade
1984: Atari, Apple, C64
1985: IBM PC
Genre(s)Multidirectional shooter
Mode(s)1-2 players alternating turns
Arcade systemKonami Scramble[4]

Lost Tomb is an overhead-view twin-stick shooter written by Dan Lee and released as an arcade video game by Stern Electronics in 1982. Armed with a gun and whip, the player uses dual joysticks to explore the chambers of a South American pyramid looking for treasure and fighting mummies, spiders, and scorpions.[5] The game was Stern's first arcade conversion kit and was intended for use with earlier machines from the company such as Scramble.[6][7]

In 1984, Datasoft published home ports for Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, and a self-booting disk for IBM PC compatibles.

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