Pharaoh's Revenge

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Developer(s) Manley & Associates
Publisher(s) Publishing International
Designer(s) Ivan Manley
Platform(s) Apple II, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
Release
Genre(s) Puzzle-platform
Mode(s) Single-player

Pharaoh's Revenge is a puzzle-platform game developed by Ivan Manley and released by Publishing International in 1988 for the Apple II, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS. The game is similar in style to Lode Runner (1983).

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Gameplay

Pharaoh's Revenge is described by Dragon as an arcade action game. [1]

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1989 in Dragon #142 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 312 out of 5 stars. [1]

Reviews

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References

  1. 1 2 Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (February 1989). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (142): 42–51.
  2. https://archive.org/details/sim_incider-a_1988-07_6_7/page/n43/mode/2up
  3. https://archive.org/details/run-magazine-69/page/n19/mode/2up