King's Valley 1985

Is it still worth playing?

An archaeologist explores a pyramid for jewels while mummies hunt him, in this 1985 platform puzzle game for the MSX. The mummies follow color coded patterns: white ones wander, blue ones are more focused and red ones move down stairs quickly. Throwing knives lying around the pyramid defeat them for a while, though they return shortly after. Pickaxes dig through bricks, one square at a time, to reach jewels, and the door to the next room opens only when all the jewels are collected. Often two doors are on offer, and one leads back to the previous room with no sign of which. The cartridge has 15 rooms, some spanning two screens, and a disk version has 60 levels and a level editor. Each room still asks you to plan a route around the mummies, like a small puzzle.