The Sands of Egypt
Description official description
The Sands of Egypt is set in the great Sahara Desert in search of the Tomb of Ra. The year is 1893 and you are the aristocratic British explorer, Sir Percy. Life as a great explorer has its excitement of recovering precious gems and gold trinkets, but currently you are hopelessly lost in the middle of nothing but sand. You will need to avoid dangerous snakes and cliffs, and find water before dying of thirst.
This graphical interactive fiction game uses standard single-letter directions - N, S, E, W - for movement. This is a disk only adventure and allows for saving and loading directly to and from the program disk. It also has limited HELP features in game. The command parser is a standard verb-noun type (Go Pool).
Groups +
Screenshots
Credits (TRS-80 CoCo version)
Reviews
Players
Average score: 3.3 out of 5 (based on 3 ratings with 1 reviews)
The Good
I played this game with my grandfather every Sunday when we went to my grandparents house. He even went so far as to map out on paper the paths that lead to the snake, the pool, the camel, etc.
Unfortunately, he passed away before we ever reached the end of this game. To this day, I have no idea how this game ended. We got as far as using the snake oil to remove a staff or something from a wall. But I have very fond memories of this game for the fact it's what my grandfather and I did together.
The Bad
At the time, nothing at all. I thought it was great!
The Bottom Line
You have to have a special place in your heart for games of this era.
TRS-80 CoCo · by Chris Dotson (1) · 2011
Analytics
Upgrade to MobyPro to view research rankings!
Related Games
Released 1987 on Apple II, DOS
Released 2009 on Nintendo DS
Released 2004 on Macintosh, Windows
Released 2010 on Windows, Nintendo DS
Released 2012 on Nintendo DS, 2013 on Nintendo 3DS
Released 2011 on Nintendo DS
Released 2000 on Windows, 2001 on PlayStation, 2012 on Macintosh
Released 2009 on Windows, Macintosh, iPad
Released 2020 on Windows
Identifiers +
Contribute
Are you familiar with this game? Help document and preserve this entry in video game history! If your contribution is approved, you will earn points and be credited as a contributor.
Contributors to this Entry
Game added by me3D31337.
Atari 8-bit, Apple II added by o0pyromancer0o.
Additional contributors: jean-louis.
Game added February 3, 2010. Last modified September 21, 2023.