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Oh Mummy Genesis

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Navigate maze tombs, open sarcophagi, and collect mummies and treasure in this single screen adventure.


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Released
2012
Genre
Perspective
Diagonal-down
Size
302.18 KB
Rating
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About Oh Mummy Genesis

Oh Mummy Genesis is a Sega Genesis title that functions as an enhanced, unofficial remake of an earlier game. The setting involves two adventurers on a mission for the British Museum in Egypt, with the objective of securing five royal mummies alongside other treasures.

Its core gameplay is a single-screen maze experience where players navigate a grid of sarcophagi. Progressing to the next level requires collecting a key and a treasure, and sarcophagi are opened by walking a complete circle around them. This version introduces a more detailed narrative context and concludes each tomb with a boss encounter, additions not present in the original.

The package also contains a direct port of the original Amstrad CPC release of Oh Mummy. Following the depletion of its initial physical production, the game's ROM file was later offered as a free download from its official site.

Oh Mummy Genesis Screenshots

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Title screen (remake)
The game boots to a faux BASIC screen that lets the player choose what version to play.
Oh Mummy Genesis opens with a cutscene providing the remake's new backstory.
Level layouts are accurate to the original game.
Walking around a sarcophagus opens it; there are several different possible contents. The player needs to collect at least a key and one treasure to exit.
There are a few variations on the basic gameplay. This level is filled with water, so the player has to remember their footsteps.
This level is pitch-black; the player can only see eyes to tell player and enemy positions, and closed sarcophagi are inbisible.
The first boss! This sphinx obscures the player's view, and will swoop down to attack.
Game over.
Title screen (classic)
The in-game graphics are an accurate reproduction of the original game.