{"id":26356,"date":"2025-12-31T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=26356"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:32:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:32:40","slug":"montezumas-revenge-the-40th-anniversary-edition-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/31\/montezumas-revenge-the-40th-anniversary-edition-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma’s Revenge: The 40th Anniversary Edition (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Seeing as though I\u2019m old enough to have experienced Pac-Man when it first came out, I\u2019m pretty familiar with most retro games.\u00a0 However, sometimes one comes along that just flew under the radar for me.\u00a0 Montezuma\u2019s Revenge was one such game.\u00a0 I remember seeing it back then, but never playing it.\u00a0 Many years later, at one of the first E3 shows I went to, they showed a 3D version and I remember the bouncing skulls, but that\u2019s it.\u00a0 And now, 40 years later, we have a new remake of the classic game and I finally get to play it and review it!\u00a0 Montezuma\u2019s Revenge: the 40th<\/sup> Anniversary Edition is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Montezuma\u2019s Revenge was a 2D single screen platformer where you explored a South American pyramid and collected treasure in single screens while avoiding enemies, climbing ladders, collecting items, etc.\u00a0 Your goal was to make it to the bottom of the pyramid where a big treasure awaits.\u00a0 Naturally the remake touches up the graphics and adds some new features.\u00a0 You can play as a male or female explorer now, and as you play, Montezuma will taunt you with spoken voice!\u00a0 If you run out of lives, you can choose to extend your game, too, since it\u2019s a pretty tough and obtuse challenge.\u00a0 You can also read about the history of the game and how to play, too.<\/p>\n

Since I never played this one back in the day, nostalgia for this title was lost on me.\u00a0 But there were a lot of other things that kept me from being too interested in this remake, too.\u00a0 The collectable items kind of blended into the background and I would miss a lot of them because of that.\u00a0 Jumping controls were stiff and if you fall too far you lose a life, which got frustrating.\u00a0 And again, the game is just too difficult, even if you can change the settings on that.\u00a0 I would\u2019ve also liked to have been able to play the original game as well, just to see what had changed.\u00a0 I think only big fans of the original game would like this one.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Montezuma\u2019s Revenge: The 40th<\/sup> Anniversary Edition is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 If you get hit by an enemy or fall too far, you just fall down and disappear and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seeing as though I\u2019m old enough to have experienced Pac-Man when it first came out, I\u2019m pretty familiar with most retro games.\u00a0 However, sometimes one comes along that just flew under the radar for me.\u00a0 Montezuma\u2019s Revenge was one such game.\u00a0 I remember seeing it back then, but never playing it.\u00a0 Many years later, at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26358,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26356\/revisions\/26358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}