Treasure Trap description
A wonderful adventure "underwater" game. Of course, this is not the habitual action is not much distinguishes it in terms of gameplay, but it adds to the atmospherics.
Intro Title screen with credits
Plot: in 1927 a treasure hunter Howard Kelp down in the suit at the bottom of the ocean to explore for the presence of treasures sunk 102 years ago a Spanish ship "Esmeralda". There are no mysteries connected with the fate of the vessel, do not have to solve, but this does not mean that the problem is not here...
Start menu The first room. Flopped down on a table after finding some crystals.
Gameplay is a typical "adventure" arcade game in isometric view. Your main goal is to walk the areas of the ship and look for (and then pick) gold and treasures. The problem of search, but it is not so significant – at least compared to the other that the inhabitants of the ship. Don't worry, no zombies and ghosts there – the most common fauna of the ocean. Only now she is no less dangerous than the living dead, and it isn't like that brave and willing to enrich themselves in such an exotic way resident sushi broke their peace.
And now the most interesting – just what this game deserves the highest rating possible. Your hero – a peace researcher, perhaps a bit greedy, but all the same, except, for some reason he did not think that there will be so many enemies... So the weapons he seems to be not. BUT! There – attention! – manual piranhas (!!!), which can produce on the enemy. Until they deal with the creatures of the sea and satisfy your insatiable hunger (Howard they won't touch), you can quickly collect the gold. But, apparently, that "life did not seem raspberries" with piranhas is not so simple. Initially we have two piranhas, and they are not immortal. Then you can "create" yet, but you need to spend as much as 80 gold bars, as they have yet to find, and to spend, in addition to everything else, and mind... Therefore, it appears that a lot of the time we would simply have to avoid hostile creatures: it is possible but quite difficult.
In addition to manual dexterity in the management of the hero, we will also need a fair amount of ingenuity. For example, the old chests can be useful for two reasons: block (albeit temporarily) the way animals can help us to climb up on something high (which also can be useful). Not all doors can be open just need some keys, which are also still to be found. Finally, we must not forget that we are under water, and the supply of oxygen in our tank is not infinite. Serendipitously (Yes, a simplification, but what to do), in some of the rooms of the ship have special bags with oxygen.
Graphically, the game is designed wonderfully: sweet, soft, isometric, and good drawing of detail. Artists do not forget even about funny bubbles, constantly accompanying us and making the game even sweeter (from the series "a trifle – but nice"). Definitely a Golden classic that will surely appeal to all fans of "smart" arcades.
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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com