Big Karnak
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Big Karnak is a scrolling platform
"Hack and slash
" arcade game
released in 1991
by Gaelco
. The game takes place in an Ancient Egypt
setting.
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...
"Hack and slash
Hack and slash
Hack and slash or hack and slay, abbreviated H&S or HnS, refers to a type of gameplay that emphasizes combat. "Hack and slash" was originally used to describe an aspect of pen-and-paper role-playing games , carrying over from there to MUDs, MMORPGs, and video games in general...
" arcade game
Arcade game
An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars, and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchandisers...
released in 1991
1991 in video gaming
-Notable releases:*Microprose creates Civilization, Sid Meier's most successful game .*Electronic Arts releases James Pond 2 and Road Rash for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, starting a series of games that were popular in the 1990s....
by Gaelco
Gaelco
Gaelco is a Spanish company that develops and publishes arcade games and video games.-Arcade games:*Alligator Hunt*ATV Track Quads on Amazon*Bang!*Big Karnak*Football Power*Maniac Square*Radikal Bikers*Ring Riders...
. The game takes place in an Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...
setting.
Trivia
- The temple guard outside at the beginning of the second level has an uncanny resemblance to the KarnovKarnovis a 1987 platform arcade game developed and published by Data East. It is the debut of Data East's mascot of the same name. After Data East became defunct due to bankruptcy in 2003, Paon, a company comprised with former Data East staff, acquired the rights to Karnov, along with multiple other Data...
boss from Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja. Their sprites are nearly identical.
- Also, when hit, he makes a sound that is identical to the sound of the second boss in the arcade Ninja Gaiden.