Pyramids of Egypt

I wanted to make a big maze game with lots of levels ala Lode Runner so I created this crazy thing in Jan-Feb 1985. It was eventually published on UpTime Disk Monthly in 1987. I actually made a PC and Commodore 64 version of this game! The PC version was published but the C64 version never made it (I didn't finish polishing it) and the disk has crumbled into plastic particles (not really, I just lost it).

Pyramids of Egypt was published on UpTime Disk Monthly in 1987. This is the front cover of the packaging material within which was the Apple II 5.25 floppy disk. DEADLY DEALINGS ON THE NILE! Somehow the Nile river figures into the game now....even though it's all just mazes and cobras. And a stomach-bleeding main character named Mike (named after my first son Michael. Just kidding, Michael was born 3 years after I wrote this game.)
When you boot the disk this is the menu/shell you get to navigate the contents from. Don't press 'H' for help - it's just a picture. Thank you.
Even though there are already instructions in the game, UpTime liked to keep things consistent so they wrote instructions you could read from their shell program. I did not write these instructions, heh.
This is a title screen that I created two years after I finished the game so it was UpTime "branded". Originally there weren't graphics on this screen, just the question at the bottom of a blank screen.
Here's my title screen! I think I drew the name of the game with line skipping because I was inspired by Nasir's "Phantoms Five" game's look. Or something. The main character, Mike, runs through the little title maze there and repeats ad nauseum. God that noise got irritating!