Playing Montezuma's Revenge on an IBM PC

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Published on September 23, 2015 11:00:01 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gL403KFwSk

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Montezuma's Revenge (1983)

Duration: 5:17

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The following is footage of Montezuma's Revenge, published by Parker Brothers in 1984. It is not a complete playthrough, but rather just enough gameplay to serve as a reference for how the game looks and feels on the original hardware.

This footage was recorded from an IBM PC (8088 CPU running at 4.77MHz) with a ("new-style") CGA card. The audio was tapped from the PC speaker and the video was recorded from the CGA composite output. The result was post-processed from 30i to 60p; all source frames are intact. This video can be considered a reference for how this game performs on this platform.

The graphics in this particular game were designed primarily for RGB displays, so the composite output colors seen here are not strictly as the developer intended.

Personal notes: My brother John completed this game in the 1980s on all difficulty levels -- using only the keyboard -- and on an 8MHz 8086 where the game runs twice as fast as intended. We never knew it was running at 2x speed until we saw a friend play it on their 4.77MHz 8088 system.

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