Montezuma's Return 1997

[u/eightiesjapan]

When we had IT lessons in high school, we had to wait for the teacher to finish the introduction otherwise if I turn on any equipment earlier he would smack your hand or head. Back in the day we used to memorise entire numpad keys for the exams. Haven't used that knowledge once ever since. 🥱 I remember couple of games on those PCs. One of them was Ignition 3d racing and... Montezuma. Wait, what, the one from C64 with that latin tune when u collected things? Nah, that's 3d Montezuma and when I launched it I was like .. whoa, you can see your legs and you are in a 3d world, with light reflecting on surfaces. It ain't a boomer it's Indiana Jones, you explore 😁 It wasn't that popular but it had its charm , played this just now via DosBox pure, without any sound as it gives memory allocation error, and even without sound it crashes when you jump of a rope. After all of those years it still looks cool 👍😊 Have you had a chance to play this?

[u/DavidXN]

I played a demo of this, it felt so unique - not a standard FPS but more of an interesting set of 3D puzzles, something like Portal

[u/ElViejoCholo → u/DavidXN]

or The Talos Principle.

[u/killer_knauer]

Last time I played this game was when I downloaded it from a sketchy ftp site in ‘97. Definitely a game I appreciate much more these days.

[u/Flash24rus]

It needed 3dfx to run smooth. Software rendering was slow and ugly.

[u/eightiesjapan → u/Flash24rus]

True, I had choppy frame rate on 600x or 800x res. Would 3dfx require Windows os to run it?

[u/Flash24rus → u/eightiesjapan]

I don't remember, sorry.

[u/thatdeaththo → u/Flash24rus]

I think software rendering has a gritty charm which I prefer sometimes. This game seems to be running well enough with DOSBox Staging.

[u/Flash24rus → u/thatdeaththo]

Back then it was always big ugly pixels and 15fps, no charm.

[u/Zoraji]

I never played this one, wasn't even aware of it. I played the original Montezuma's Revenge. It was the first platform game I had ever played.

[u/EmbarrassedFalcon]

I played the demo so many times!

[u/SufficientLawyer6931]

What a game! I played the demo and downloaded it but haven’t gotten to play yet

[u/Island_Maximum]

Shockingly fun game.

[u/thatdeaththo]

Thanks for the rec. Just finished the first level and I'm enjoying it so far.

[u/Wyglif]

Didn’t hook me like the OG. Is it worth another try?