The Pharaoh's Curse (video game)

The Pharaoh's Curse
Publisher(s)Synapse Software
HES (VIC)
Designer(s)Steve Coleman[1]
Programmer(s)Atari 8-bit
Steve Coleman
Commodore 64
Jason Hyatt[1]
VIC-20
Alick Dziabczenko[1]
Platform(s)Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, VIC-20
Release1983
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player

The Pharaoh's Curse is a platform adventure game written by Steve Coleman and published by Synapse Software in 1983 for Atari 8-bit computers. It was ported to the Commodore 64 and VIC-20, with the VIC version published by Human Engineered Software. Coleman also wrote Rainbow Walker for Synapse, published the same year.[1]

The player attempts to collect 16 treasures from an Egyptian tomb while avoiding the pharaoh, his mummy, and various traps. John Szczepaniak, writing for GamesTM magazine, called The Pharaoh's Curse an early example of what later became known as the Metroidvania genre.[2]

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  2. ^ Szczepaniak, John. "Backtracking: The History of Metroidvania". GamesTM. No. 116. Imagine Publishing. pp. 148–53.