# Identify this Video Game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 28, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112 "2013-06-28T13:31:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/1 "2013-06-28T13:31:58Z")
I’m trying to remember the name of an arcade video game that I remember playing in the mid to late 80s. The game involved a guy with a whip going into successive pyramids full of mummies and spiders and stuff. I don’t remember any deeper goal than getting though each room and out the other side. When you entered each level everything would be quite and then creatures activated by proximity. Any help with a name would be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/2 "2013-06-28T13:48:17Z")
[Tutankham](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnrOgO5mP6s)? ---
**Author:** ![Stormcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stormcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormcrow)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/3 "2013-06-28T13:52:32Z")
If it were earlier in the decade I would have said _Pitfall_. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/4 "2013-06-28T13:54:36Z")
Nope, in the one I am trying to remember the levels were actual pyramids and the weapon you had was a whip that did a 360 swipe around you when you “fired”. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/5 "2013-06-28T14:00:54Z")
Perhaps it was [Snake Pit](http://www.coinop.org/g.aspx/101547/Snake_Pit.html). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/6 "2013-06-28T14:05:55Z")
_Castlevania_ ? And if not _Castlevania_, were the graphics of lower or higher quality? That might help narrow it down. ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/7 "2013-06-28T14:14:53Z")
It’s ‘Lost Tomb’ - [Lost Tomb - Videogame by Stern Electronics](http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8456) Most levels had two exits and you had to fight bats going down the stairs. If I recall, it is the first game that allowed you to power up (buy more whips) for real money. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/8 "2013-06-28T14:16:52Z")
Not Snake Pit and Not Castlevania, which does have more advanced graphics than I am remembering. I think this was created to capitalize on the Indiana Jones hype of the time. The graphics were a little beyond 8 bit but still depended on sprites on a static background. The screen was definitely presented as a pyramid and, I think, you entered at the top all the time and worked your way to the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/9 "2013-06-28T14:22:43Z")
Lost Tomb is very close but still not quite what I remember. I am sure there were various critters including mummies and bats and the pyramid was shown in cut-away with a maze mapped out inside that you had to work through. ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/10 "2013-06-28T14:42:33Z")
> [@Pabitel](#): > > Not Snake Pit and Not Castlevania, which does have more advanced graphics than I am remembering. > I think this was created to capitalize on the Indiana Jones hype of the time. The graphics were a little beyond 8 bit but still depended on sprites on a static background. > The screen was definitely presented as a pyramid and, I think, you entered at the top all the time and worked your way to the bottom. This still sounds like Lost Tomb. The intro scene has you parachuting onto the top level of the tomb. Once inside there were two types of screens: room which would look a bit like Berserk back in they day, except with treasure chests, mummies, scorpions, and you could not shoot through the walls but your whip would destroy them, and stairs where it was a ‘pseudo 3d’ screen where you emerge at the top and there was a room to the lower left and one to the lower right and you had to get to one of them while bats came out of the edge of the screen trying to kill you. Rooms - [http://www.arcade-history.com/images/game/1410\_1.png](http://www.arcade-history.com/images/game/1410_1.png) Stairs - [http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/106/1064424106.jpg](http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/106/1064424106.jpg) Intro - [http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale\_small/12/128081/2287683-118124212723.png](http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/12/128081/2287683-118124212723.png) ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/11 "2013-06-28T16:25:55Z")
Moving from Cafe Society to the Game Room. ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/12 "2013-06-28T18:11:43Z")
How about [Montezuma’s Revenge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma's_Revenge_(video_game))? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/13 "2013-06-28T18:19:08Z")
> [@Phnord\_Prephect](#): > > How about [Montezuma’s Revenge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma's_Revenge_(video_game))? I thought of that one, but it doesn’t involve a character with a useable whip, and I don’t think it ever was an arcade game. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/14 "2013-06-28T22:31:05Z")
I remember an arcade game in spring 1983 called _King Tut’s Tomb_. ETA: Here’s a link to [Tutankhamen](http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10227), which may or may not have anything to do with **sciurophobic** ’s link, but looks similar to what I recall. ---
**Author:** ![salocin411](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@salocin411](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salocin411)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/15 "2016-05-04T17:55:43Z")
Your request drove me crazy for several weeks. I too have played this game and could not remember it’s title. For the longest time all I could remember was the whip too. Another clue I had in my mind was that the main character resembled (to my mind) the Bezerk and Robotron movements. So I set upon combing thru all of STERN’S video games from the early eighties. I know I lost many quarters to this game. And finally I came upon an obscure title called LOST TOMB. I googled it and found a YOUTUBE video link [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOpFoL7MHEc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOpFoL7MHEc) I think this is the game we both fondly remember! ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/16 "2016-05-05T02:01:00Z")
How does a question from almost 3 years ago that was also answered 3 years ago with the same answer that you give now drive you crazy for several weeks? ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-video-game/662112/17 "2016-05-05T23:44:42Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > How does a question from almost 3 years ago that was also answered 3 years ago with the same answer that you give now drive you crazy for several weeks? It was a short trip.