Montezuma's Revenge

This slick adventure game is absolutely superb in every respect. Its graphics are colorful and detailed, with no flicker to speak of. The control is best described as "crisp", and the gameplay is madly addicting.

Despite a few minor flaws here and there, Montezuma's Revenge is truly a unique game that one wouldn't usually expect on the Atari 2600. One of the unfortunate things is how rare it is, being released right around the time of the Great Video Game Crash. It's sad, too, because it set a standard for how adventure games should be. Now if people would stop associating the name with that infamous traveler's stomach bug!

Montezuma's Revenge è uno dei titoli più rappresentativi di un sottogenere di platform-arcade adventure labirintico che gode di una certa diffusione nella seconda metà degli anni '80. Il successo della Utopia / Parker Brothers centra in pieno l'obiettivo di bilanciare in un ottimo gameplay azione serrata ed intrigante feeling esplorativo, senza rinunciare, peraltro, ad una curatissima realizzazione tecnica.

Overall this game is pretty fun to play. If you can deal with the lack of good graphics (spiderwebs end up looking like random gunk in this PC port).

The game's pacing is too frenetic in general, with scampering spiders and rolling skulls which give you little time to react. On paper, Montezuma's Revenge is an amazing game, but frantic controls render it nearly unplayable.