Oh, Mummy! Genesis

I recently discovered an unliscensed Genesis remake of an old console game called Oh, Mummy. It’s a maze game where you must traverse a tomb while avoiding enemies to go to the next level. The game does not explain the win conditions, so I had to experiment a bit, but it seems you have to uncover at least one key and treasure before you can go to the next level. Sometimes you’ll uncover a scroll that temporarily makes you go backwards.

The remake tries to add some level variety. One level is in the dark, one is in water, another has a large flying cat sphinx that obscures parts of the maze. The graphics and bosses are kinda cute but unfortunately the gameplay is overly simplistic and not really fun, even with the added variations.

It includes a port of the Amstrad CPC version. I actually liked this version better in some ways, because the paths are obscured, but the collision detection is super fussy so it’s easy to get hung-up on a corner.