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Pharaoh's Tomb

Pharaoh's Tomb is an arcade-adventure game set in a huge Egyptian pyramid. Explore 20 uniquely-dangerous levels riddled with ingenious puzzles and traps. You start with five lives and a few spears, which can…

14 December 1990

Pharaoh's Tomb is an adventure, released 14 December 1990 on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Pharaoh's Tomb is

Pharaoh's Tomb was released in 1990. It was published by Apogee Software. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pharaoh's Tomb is an arcade-adventure game set in a huge Egyptian pyramid. Explore 20 uniquely-dangerous levels riddled with ingenious puzzles and traps. You start with five lives and a few spears, which can he thrown at offending denizens that patrol the pyramid. Pharaoh's Tomb consists of four unique volumes, which concludes with "Nevada's Revenge."
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Pharaoh's Tomb launched on 14 December 1990, within three weeks of A-Train, Spellbound, Colorado and The Amazing Spider-Man.

Released around the same time: A-Train, Spellbound, Colorado, The Amazing Spider-Man.

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When did Pharaoh's Tomb come out?
Pharaoh's Tomb was released on 14 December 1990 for DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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