Tutankham

Tutankham Description

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Game Introduction

The game has four different stages where you must help the explorer find four different treasures including a map, an urn, a chest of gold and jewels and finally the golden death mask. The game has rather spooky, Egyptian-style background music.

Game Play

On each stage, the explorer must pick up keys (worth 500 points each) in order to unlock the doors (worth 1000 points each)to the rooms where each of the treasures are kept but he can only carry one at a time. The first stage only has two doors to unlock but the other three each have three doors to unlock. The explorer can also collect rings and crowns from random parts of the maze that are worth from 500 to 4000 points each.

There are also "warp zones" located in random parts of each maze that allow the explorer to be teleported from one area of the maze to another.

Each maze has a map at the top of the screen that helps you know how far the explorer is from each treasure room. Each stage has has a time limit and if you run out of time, you will run out of bullets, so you must try to collect all keys and unlock all doors to recover the treasure before time runs out. Once the explorer has unlock all doors and recovered a treasure, a bonus score is rewarded for the treasure. Points are also scored the time that is left over on each stage. Afterwards, the explorer proceeds to the next stage.

Each treasure has different point values. You get no points at all for the map, but you get 1000 points for the urn, 2000 points for the chest of gold and jewels and 5000 points for the golden death mask. After you have recovered all four of King Tut's treasures, the game starts over again with increased difficulty.

VAPS Arcade Census

Very Common - There are 59 known instances of Tutankham owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 33 of them are original dedicated machines, and 26 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 57,121 video games (3,420 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 37 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There are 6 VAPS members currently looking for Tutankham.

For Sale - There is one VAPS member with a Tutankham machine for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Technical

Trivia

The game's title "Tutankham" is a misspelling of "Tutankhamen", the full name of the famous pharoah (or king) of Ancient Egypt who is popularly called King Tut. Tutankhamen was also called The Boy Pharoah because he was only eight or nine years old when he became king and he ruled for about nine years sometime around 1300 B.C. until his death at the age of only seventeen or eighteen, it was believed that he was probably poisoned. His tomb was discovered in the early 1920's where all his treasures including his famous golden death mask were found and are now on display at The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. This video game is presumably based on the discovery of his tomb, only more imaginary than realistic.

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Manuals

1. Schematic  18 Pages, 2532 KB File.

Foto-Finder™

1. The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 147; Color photo;