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The Sands of Egypt

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The Sands of Egypt

Dec 31, 1982

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The Sands of Egypt is an adventure game. The story takes place in 1893, following a British explorer and archaeologist who is lost in the desert. Text commands are entered in the lower half of the screen, while a sometimes animated image of the current location is displayed in the upper half.
Release Dates
1982 Full Release (North_America)
Atari 8-bit, TRS-80 Color Computer
1983 Full Release (North_America)
Apple II
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scoopings gave Feb 22, 2022
scoopings gave Feb 22, 2022
Mediocre Text Adventure Made Even Less Fun With Sluggish Animations

Look: 7/10 While the colors and graphics are beautiful, as you see below, and the animations are somewhat innovative (and undeniably well-done), like other games with transition animations, it just seems to add time during an otherwise good text adventure. enter image description here

Play: 5/10 I bet I would have liked the look and play of the Apple II version better, but I wanted to stay true to the chronology project, and that was released a year later. Sure feels like a lottttt of wandering "lost" in the desert tho.

Feel: 5/10 And in the end it just wound up being too sluggish, slow, and bland. Sure, it started to diversify a bit but it wasn't exciting enough, nor fast enough to warrant pushing through.

Attachment: 6/10 Moving on! Oddly memorable, probly cuz of the animated backgrounds, but forgettable indeed.