How to succeed at Tutankham

Visit Star Worlds Arcade, near Chicago, IL, to play this classic arcade game.

If you don’t live near an arcade, the ArcadeSD jamma PCB at Phoenixarcade.com supports Tut.

jamma PCB at Phoenixarcade.com supports Tut. Tut is available on XBox360 under the Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA)

Game history-

Game control uses 2 joysticks similar to the immensely popular Robotron

“Tutankham” was used to abbreviate the full name of Tutankhamun, which was too long for the images.

Game concept-

Player moves in 4 directions within maze

Firing is left and right only

A flashbomb is available to destroy all enemies on the screen. 1 bomb per life.

4 mazes, repeated 4 times

Each series of 4 mazes gets successively harder

After wave 16, the mazes start over at the original maze 1.

All Strategies below can be observed in the Walkthrough videos provided below.

Find “Safe Zones” (novice skill)

Find “safe zones” for firing on the horizontal, where enemies have to filter toward your firing range

Ignore the Radar (novice skill)

The radar looks cool like Defender, but it is a distraction

The radar does not show you where to find keys

Enemies only exist on the players current screen so the radar is moot

The only time the radar is useful is when using the “Erasing the Enemy” skill below.

Erasing the Enemy (novice skill)

The computer program is only able to process enemies on the player’s current screen view

Moving to the far left or right in a maze will help “erase” the enemies on the current section of the screen

Handy when the pack of enemies is too overwhelming to deal with

Wall Shot (advanced skill)

When moving up or down, firing against the wall will leave a trace shot that will kill enemies that are very close to catching you.

Pacman control (advanced skill)

Be aware that enemy movement is guided by how many enemies are in the area and where the player is in the maze.

Like Pac-Man, you will be able to find predictable patterns of enemy movement.

Learn to “finesse” the hard parts of mazes 3 and 4 (advanced skill)

Maze 3 and 4 have some vertical columns of maze that are extremely challenging

Avoid the urge to use your Flash bomb

You will need to develop an intuitive sense of the enemy movement, shooting skills, and timing

See the Walkthroughs below for tips on techniques to maneuver these tricky parts of the game.

Use the Swarm Timer (master skill)

Be aware that swarms of enemies are generated at fixed intervals of the timer. Try to be in a safe zone before swarm starts

Walkthroughs-

Maze 1 on Youtube

Maze 2 on Youtube

Maze 3 on Youtube

Maze 4 on Youtube

Gameplay courtesy of MARP, Search shortname=tut, Player=Smile4Rob (10/3/2006)

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