Colecovision Game: Montezuma's Revenge (1984 Parker Brothers)

An arcade platform game where you play a treasure hunter named Panama Joe to find an ancient treasure buried deep inside the catacombs hidden by the Aztec Warrior while you must be aware there are large maze inhibited by monsters. Bouncing and rolling skulls, dancing spiders, disappearing and re-appearing chains, and tons of fire await you. You will have to find keys to unlock doors to reach your goal. You can jump and climber ladders but you have no ability to have combat which is the reason why monsters in the game must be avoided at all costs. Any contact with the monsters will cause Panama Joe to lose a life. Eventually, you will be able to find amulets to make you invulnerable to these monsters for a short period of time.
Originally released in 1983 for the Atari 800 and Atari 5200. Later ported to many other systems in 1984.
This game is hard even more so than Pitfall and Aztec.
All 9 levels are shown. The game is endless. After beaten all levels, the last level endlessly restarts so I quit afterwards.

[@cdonny3832]

This is the first video game I ever played. 4 years old at my babysitter's house. Orange/brown shag carpet and all! Mornings started with watching family fued or scooby doo followed by some good ol Colecovision! Man I gotta find a way back to 1985!!!

[@idnintel]

Hey bro - born in 77 and we genxers had it the best: we saw everything develop in terms of video games, we had freedom in movement since our parents weren't obsessed with us and the politically incorrect comedy was awesome as well. This game is also one of the first I played and was a favorite along with jumpman junior. Now we got some cool metroidvanias to play like ori and the blind forest :). Take care

[@zenar6420]

Gods I spent hours playing this game in the '80s! Good memories.

[@erickmanuel7852]

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[@johnnymatthias8211]

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[@luvmenow33]

I remember how blown away I was the first time I played a video game that had more than one screen to it. LMAO People laugh now but you gotta remember the earliest console games where developed using the same formula as an arcade game which was Action packed , fast , and difficult. They wanted a game to be over quickly so they could maximize the money said game would make. That’s why with so many of those old games , level one and two are fairly easy. But when you get to level three it takes a HUGE LEAP in difficulty. Just play Pac-Man and look how much faster it gets. Frogger is another one I remember bring fairly simple on level one . But on level two the speed and difficulty doubles. But that style doesn’t work at alll when you’re playing at home. IMO , That’s what Nintendo figured out and based their earliest games around. Would NES have been so huge if the first 20 games that released with the system were mostly arcade clones with the improved graphics and original games of that nature? No way. It was games like Super Mario Brothers CastleVaina and IMO the most important game in 8 hit nes history The Legend of Zelda. In fact I attribute 75% of Nintendo’s success to LOZ because unless you had a computer and had played games like Ullitma or the like, Zelda was something you never dreamed of and really filled a important void in gaming. Every kid wants to be a hero that goes on a quest to save the world. The only games close to that were PC games and they were way to difficult for a 8 to 10 year old. But you could pick up LOZ , grab that sword and just go have a blast. That’s why games like this , Quintana Roo, Mountain Quest, the AD&D games for jntellvision were amazing

[@DocRunaway]

Here's a thing I found out as a child playing this game. If you put together all the screens in their order, they form an Aztec pyramid and its different levels, starting with the first screen, which is the top of it, each one larger than the previous one on top of it.

[@dimon05]

Just like being 8 year old again. This guy is the god of this game though. Brings back all kind of memories. 30 years ago, just like yesterday. Thanks for posting this on KZbin!

[@SprocketWalker]

I really enjoyed your playthrough of Montazuma's Revenge. Thank you for uploading. It would be nice to have your comments as you play!

[@ЖеняШпаков-ь4ъ]

игра детства ностальгия.. женечка 47 годиков

[@cman3748]

It's safe to say that this game probably inspired super Mario bros 1 the levels remind me of the castles

[@jeffmorefield]

I spent so many hours playing this back in the day.

[@goinsouth051]

I remember this game. It was also for the pc . I remember playing for hours 🙂

[@annwatts7002]

9 levels of play. its one of the best games on Colecovision today is 10-22-21

[@vansajexora]

Maybe the best colecovision game

[@yolo-se1hl]

Que buen juego lo jugaba en una atari 800 xl en los 80s tiempos hermosos que no volveran

[@BrooklandsHoneyBees]

There is a blast from the past, spent hours playing this as a kid on my mums commodore 64 :p

[@vonVile]

I use to play this the hell out of thid on my Apple IIc. I had the map memorized to even play the invisible level.

[@richardharris6507]

Now THIS is a game. Absolutely nothing like it on Intellivision, and only games I've found on Atari 2600 like it are Hero and Pitfall 2, but this game is better then both of them. Some hit detection and jumping physics issues, but considering its a year before the gold standard Super Mario Bros came out, they can be forgiven. Still very playable today. This is when games started to resemble classic games of the 8/16 bit era.

[@gmoney1065]

They made this game for the 2600 but it looked terrible. The Atari 5200 version was by far the best, it blew away the 2600 and the ColecoVision versions.

[@isragu6186]

Awesome memories!! It's kind of hilarious when he falls on his head!

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

Anybody knows the, well, many lives never counted, exploit in the level around 24:21, after climbing down between the two snakes? I was such a little kid then: with your last life (yep, one shot deal but waaa, so worth it!) on the long conveyer, jump to the right in order to die on the corner of the floor on top of the short ladder then, get killed a second time by the laser chain gate and voila! 0-1=game over BUT 0-2= lots of lives; maybe to make up for the glitch, thank you ColecoVision for this creative error handling :) Enjoy!

[@Gen-x-press]

Kids today would cry over a game this difficult

[@SilverreploidCLE]

I haven't been up to date on your videos because of KZbin's inactive subscriber policy, but I have re-subscribed.

[@SilverreploidCLE]

Robop How is it not the case? I didn't hit unsubscribe or anything else.

[@jordanhazen7761]

I'd thought Level 9 was supposed to have no torch available, requiring the entire pyramid to be traversed in darkness, based on memory of previous runs. Guessing the Colecovision port was easier in this regard? I played this on the Apple II platform, but never got nearly so far.

[@BreakTime10101]

I was 12 years old when this game came out in 1984 and I used to play it for hours on an Apple IIe and IIc. I want to say I won once, but I don’t remember. Good game for the time period with the technology we had back then. Are there any videos on here of what it looks like if you win the whole thing?

[@reedr7142]

In all the times I’ve played this game, I never realized there are two different positions Panama Joe ends up in when he falls and gets squished.

[@SilverreploidCLE]

I played this game, it was SO hard to manage. lol But it's a great game, in the end.

[@UnCreativeDeconstructionism]

lmao you can feel the frustration in this video sometimes

[@VirtualVernon]

The atari 5200, and XL versions are way better, because its actually a lot easier to control your character. For some reason the colecovision port runs x2 faster. It makes the game almost unplayable! I constantly have trouble trying to jump small gaps and ledges because flys off and dies.

[@paxhumana2015]

There is also now an NES homebrew port of the game, as well as a Sega Master System port of the game as well.

[@spiderlime]

i had the atari version but never found out how many levels were there beyond 3 and what happened in the end.

[@BreakTime10101]

According to Wikipedia, its 9 floors deep with 99 rooms.

[@kikihideout4966]

an early metroidvania

[@Krendall2]

This and Pitfall II pretty much defined the genre in these early days.

[@TheTukTuk2008]

Those memories!

[@SimsMoyal]

looks weird - i played it on PC back then and it looked different

[@shinji7058]

Ever heard of Mandela Effect? x)

[@paxhumana2015]

@@shinji7058 , ever hear of being an idiot? This game was ported to many systems, including the PC.

[@cherubin7th]

openai gym version looks very different from this. I am confused!

[@dimon05]

The ending though! Is that even possible!?

[@puppiesarepower3682]

Fascinating game, but I just can't get past "La Cucaracha" jingle.

[@АвтомобильныйПрограммист]

Cool game in Lode Runner style!

[@haroof]

This was the first game that made me break a console controller.

[@robek2]

This is so awesome, thank you :)

[@corztrubl1]

Thank you

[@TheChoborra]

lo jugaba de niño!! descubrí un bug para vidas infinitas se hace en la pantalla del minuto 2 del video alguno mas lo descubrió? o sabe como es?

[@TheDarkThunder]

That’s a lot of bricks.

[@bibitoy7163]

remember thats time 1988, yea thx

[@digiblader1]

Isn't Sydney Hunter kinda inspired by this game?

[@alexandervalle525]

Cool version for being colecovision

[@MangizTheBrachyrhynchos]

And it looks like SG-1000 graphics.

[@SouthwesternEagle]

This game is MUCH too simple for the ColecoVision. It could run much more than what's on screen, plus music. :P

[@Henchman1977]

Played this game when I was a kid... I was so sh1t at it.... I kept going back to it tho...

[@robek2]

Can you please play Zorro, Hero, and The Goonies next?

[@EminoMeneko]

I had this game on C64. Never finished it. And when I see this video I find it to be too long for a game of that era. Also the dark places are F-Up. Sorry I couldn't see its end.

[@jordanhazen7761]

It's 9 separate play-throughs in sequence. Successfully finishing puts you back at the beginning of the pyramid, at the next highest difficulty, all sharing the same map, but with slight differences controlled by difficulty level, ever-expanding darkness regions, and needing to find a toch being one of these. In most ports, level 9 (final) has no torch available, and has to be played completely in darkness. I guess they expected players to have memorized all the screens by then.

[@JacobCanote]

the levels are great.

[@mortimertouxz9164]

This version of the game is not good at all, but if it is something enjoyable, the game is not good, it has bugs, bad placement of the enemies and difficulty, but well, I give it 6.9/10 for having the same marble as the original game

[@JacobCanote]

Tomb Raider eat your heart out.

[@boofisgod]

I love floppy discs

[@annwatts7002]

It looks like there are more then 9 levels?

[@smokingunclefrank6037]

Wow how many hours did you have to play to get that good Either burn my but or fall on my stupid head

[@damianpirro]

Como puedo descargar el juego ?

[@NWLavdurke]

Иоя мама которой уже 50 играла в это в школе... (вроде на учительском комп)

[@MangizTheBrachyrhynchos]

Looks like SG-1000.

[@scopedpixels]

Does a physical cart exist for this game?

[@마스크맨-c9t]

good

[@jessragan6714]

REVENGE! (splort)

[@dogus.utoopia]

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