Entombed (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Ultimate Play The Game |
| Publisher(s) | Ultimate Play The Game |
| Platform(s) | Commodore 64 |
| Release | 1984 |
| Genre(s) | Arcade adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Entombed is a video game for the Commodore 64 developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1984. It is the first sequel to The Staff of Karnath.
Introduction
Typically for an Ultimate release, players are given a tantalising and cryptic introduction :
- "I could hardly believe it a first, but there before my very eyes was the key I had been searching for. The Eye of Osiris, yet there was something strange and unfamiliar about the symbol, something I had never seen in my travels throughout Egypt. It was as though the Eye had been here many thousands of years, before both the Sphinx under which it was positioned, and the Great Pyramids ever existed. As I intensely examined the Eye, it became clear that it was not made of an Earthly substance and therefore confirmed my theory of its extra-terrestial origins.
- Whilst I pondered over my astounding find, I suddenly became aware of a low pitched humming sound which appeared to come from beneath the very ground.
- The Eye had begun to glow with all the power it had once represented in times long since past.
- The vibration beneath my feet was beginning to grow stronger and I could feel myself slowly sinking into the ground. I struggled with all my might to break free, but it was in vain. The ground closed above my head as I sank into a dark empty hollow beneath the Sphinx. A tremendous crash echoed around the dusky tombchamber as a giant stone statue fell in front of the only possible exit, guarding my one chance of escape.
- A soul-chilling deathly silence followed, as my last few rays of hope faded on futile notions. Only the cold darkness remained.
- For minutes or hours I waited as my eyes focused on the empty black void. Suddenly shadows..., my senses played tricks as I scrambled towards the glow. Torches on the walls flared in blinding balls of light and then settled to their flickering glow. The whole cavern was now bathed in fiery light, strange shadows danced on the dry stone walls.
- I searched the large underground chamber which appeared to be directly beneath the head of the Great Sphinx. The statue which guarded my only way out was that of the God Osiris, which must have weighed many tons and was therefore totally immovable.
- Looking around the chamber, I noticed what appeared to be a small chest, on which was a symbol of the Eye of Osiris. Opening the chest revealed a long red scroll on which was a depiction of the Egyption god Set. The message contained therein appeared to be an ancient verse and was translated as follows:
- The Eye of Osiris guides your way
- through corridors long and dark this day
- but when henceforth the creatures come
- It's Set who beats the eternal drum.
- Search out the scrolls, they hold the key
- for that which will then set you free
- but heed this message, for that which looms
- is ready to make thou forever entombed.