Egypt is a puzzle game released for the Family Computer

Nintendo Entertainment System

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 in 1991 by Human Creative. It was released only in Japan

Japan

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. It is an object elimination type puzzle game. A player controls a spherical

Sphere

A sphere is a perfectly round geometrical object in three-dimensional space, such as the shape of a round ball. Like a circle in two dimensions, a perfect sphere is completely symmetrical around its center, with all points on the surface lying the same distance r from the center point...

 jewel

Gemstone

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, and jumps from tile

Tile

A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass. Tiles are generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops...

 to tile. Stepping on an arrow

Arrow

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 shifts a row or column in the direction of the arrow. Place two or more of the same object next to each to clear away objects. Clear all objects from a level to beat the level.

Story

An Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones

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 style explorer is trapped inside an Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

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ian temple. He meets a goddess

Goddess

A goddess is a female deity. In some cultures goddesses are associated with Earth, motherhood, love, and the household. In other cultures, goddesses also rule over war, death, and destruction as well as healing....

 who is so low in power that she can only take the form of a large, spherical jewel. He enters the jewel to restore her power by clearing each level.

Gameplay

The game is played on an 8x8 tiled grid. The player controls the large spherical jewel, and can move around with the directional pad. The player can step on any type of tile except a wall

Wall

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. A tile can be either an empty space, a wall, an object, or an arrow.

Shifting the map

When the player steps on an arrow, the row or column of the map is shifted in the direction of the arrow. For example, stepping on an up-arrow shifts the column containing the arrow, while stepping on a right-arrow shifts the row. Shifting a row or column does not move the player, so it appears that the map is shifting beneath the player. Arrows can be stepped on multiple times. When a tile is pushed off the edge of the map, it wraps around

Wraparound (Video Games)

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 to the other side.

Eliminating Objects

When a row or column is shifted, the objects are shifted as well. If two or more objects come into contact, they are eliminated. Eliminating all the objects moves the player to the next level. If there is only one object of any type remaining, the level is unfinishable, since there is no other object to eliminate it with.

Items

On the two easier difficult levels of the game, the player can use items to assist with solving the levels. Items do not exist on the Hard difficulty mode. Use of items is not necessary to complete the game, as every level is solvable without items.

• Lightning Bolt - Destroys all walls within a 3x3 area surrounding the player. This does not wrap around to the opposite edges.
• Feather
  Feather
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   - The player flies up into the air, and can move freely up to five times without hitting walls or activating arrows.
• Flash - Destroys all walls in a level.

Fan Translation

A translation group named "Dodgy Translations" has produced an English

English language

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translation patch http://www.romhacking.net/trans/524/.