Karnov

Description

Karnov, the fire-breathing Russian, is seeking the Lost Treasure of Babylon. He runs, swims, jumps, climbs, and flies through nine levels of gameplay.

Part of the Following Groups

• Animals: Dinosaurs
• Game Center CX challenge games

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User Reviews

There's a reason nobody has bothered to review this game...	NES	OlSkool_Gamer (99)
A faithful port of the original arcade gameplay.	PC Booter	Trixter (8728)
Someone said something about a 2nd disk?	PC Booter	Indra was here (15038)

The Press Says

Your Sinclair	ZX Spectrum	Jun, 1988	9 out of 10	90
The Games Machine (UK)	ZX Spectrum	Jun, 1988	88 out of 100	88
Game Informer Magazine	NES	Mar, 2001	8.25 out of 10	82
Quebec Gamers	NES	Jul 26, 2006	7.9 out of 10	79
Random Access	NES	2005	5.3 out of 10	53
Power Play	Commodore 64	May, 1988	2 out of 10	20

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Trivia

A closer look at the decrypted program binary shows Karnov's program flow:

UPDATELOCS
POSTHITS
DOCONTROLS
CHECKTRIGGERS
PRE-KARNOV
THINKCYCLE
POST-KARNOV
SCROLLVIEW
DRAWCYCLE
SCROLLUPDATE
ERASECYCLE

So, if you want to write your own video game, the above serves as a nice template. :-) Some cute error messages are also in there:

sprite bummer!
Total loss of precision.
Partial loss of precision.