Crypts of Terror

Played this game as a kid and eventually completed it... what a sense of achievement that gave me! A satisfying ending too iirc.

Would love to play it again.

For some reason I was enraptured by this game as a child...I probably didn't have the thinking skills to realize...hey, this is impossible and tedious!

Kudos for effort and fitting it into 16K, but only a masochist (or me as a small child) would try to finish this game. You have no clue which of the 50 chests the goal is in, so you just keep picking up the sword, entering the next room, killing the monster, dropping the sword, going back to the previous room, getting the key, entering the next room, opening the chest, repeat.

Yes, your sword only points to the right, and you can only carry the sword, key, or gun (!) at any one time. Combat is pretty much random. Press FIRE for a map of the crypts, if you have the patience. If you find "drugs" in a chest, I think the only cure is to later find "food" in a chest...the trees won't cure you.

Any tips on loading this with the Atari800OSX emulator? After the introductory screen it doesn't seem able to continue loading from the tape image.

I played this like CRAZY as a kid, and then the tape became corrupted. I'd love to try it again...

Another one of my 'most played',even though it's in Basic and on tape(still trying to convert the non-standard format onto disk now!!!),never completed all the levels even after 22 years!Must try harder!