Tutankham (Arcade)

In Tutankham, travel through four mazes to collect treasure and Tutankhaman's still-blinking severed head!!

Or maybe it's a carved golden cranium. Either way, go get it.

Fun piece of trivia: The game was originally to be called Tutankhamon. However, when programmers decided to change the monitor position from horizontal to vertical, they had to cut the -ON suffix from 'Tutankhamon' to make the title fit the screen width.

Sub-Pages#

Prerelease Info Notes

Developer Credits#

A programmer note and copyright date can be found in memory starting at A16A:

Programmed by H.TANIGAKI
All left reserved
Don't copy this program
Copyright (c) 1982 KONAMI

Unused Graphics#

Some of the tiles in the game's global tileset aren't used in any stage.

Tile ID: 17, 19, 1A, 1C
This fire could have been used as decoration or as an obstacle. "Could have" being the key phrase here.

Tile ID: 7F
A rock or a snail with a meteorite for a shell or something. It never appears anywhere.

Early (3B, 3C)	Final (83, 84)

Two early point graphics were never cleared from the tileset. The text was changed from red to white, and the frame was altered subtly.

Anti-Piracy#

The game's code keeps a checksum for the title screen's copyright symbol. If the checksum fails (the copyright symbol is altered or removed), the game will not boot.