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In 2001, Johnny Thunder and the Adventurers received a bunch of online games taking place across the globe. Most of these were short minigames, but the most notable were "The Restless Mummy" and "The Lost Treasure of Ancient Greece", two full-length adventures featuring multiple minigames connected by story cutscenes. However, not everyone had the best internet in 2001 and 2002, so LEGO offered these longer games in two formats: Lowband and Highband. The Lowband version presents most dialogue as comic speech bubbles, similar to the "LEGO Island Comic Adventures" and "Evil Music", while the Highband version boasts full voice acting.

Today, none of the minigames have been archived, but we're fortunate enough to have saved "The Restless Mummy" and "The Lost Treasure of Ancient Greece" thanks to archival efforts such as LEGO Media Project. In both cases, LMP has the Highband versions available for download. And why shouldn't they? The Highband version is the definitive version, after all!

And yet... for the sake of posterity, I couldn't help wondering if the Lowband versions still existed. By digging through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, I got my answer: the Lowband SWF files for "The Restless Mummy" are fully archived. By downloading them from Wayback and replacing the SWF files in LMP's Highband version, I was able to get a fully working version of the Lowband "The Restless Mummy". Therefore, here's a recorded walkthrough of the easy mode.

If you want to play it yourself, here's the download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/xg3uoqc606acn02/The_Restless_Mummy_Loband.zip/file

Curiously, there's less dialogue in the Lowband version; for example, Dr. Kilroy and Johnny Thunder's phone call at the beginning is abridged, dropping lines like "Who knows what hidden secrets lay inside the tomb?" and "Why, that's as good as gold!" During the labyrinth section, the mummy's speech bubble indicates you want to take the right doorway, providing an extra clue that isn't in the Highband version. And despite all other voice lines being removed, the snake minigame still has most of its voice clips.

Since the most important differences between Lowband and Highband are in dialogue and cutscenes, I didn't feel the need to record the hard mode; there's no point in watching me spend extra time matching scarabs or netting snakes. For that, you can just watch the Highband hard mode walkthrough by @Ringtail here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnvLN6Sgc_s

As for "The Lost Treasure of Ancient Greece"? Unfortunately, no such luck there. I'm unable to find any SWFs beyond the initial loading screen on Wayback, so the Highband download on LMP remains the only archived copy to my knowledge. Titoonic, the games' developer, also doesn't seem to exist anymore, so we're unable to contact them for more information.

LEGO Adventurers belongs to The LEGO Group.