The Mummy (video game)

The Mummy, known in Japan as Hamunaptra: Ushinawareta Sabaku no Miyako (ハムナプトラ 〜失われた砂漠の都〜, Hamunaputora 〜Ushinawareta Sabaku no Miyako〜, lit. "Hamunaptra: The Capital City of the Lost Desert"), is a single-player video game for Game Boy Color, PlayStation and Microsoft Windows, based on the 1999 movie of the same name. It was published by Konami.

The Mummy
Developer(s)Rebellion Developments (PC, PS), Konami (GBC)
Publisher(s)Konami
SeriesThe Mummy 
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, Game Boy Color
ReleaseWindows
  • NA: November 17, 2000
  • EU: December 15, 2000
PlayStation
  • NA: November 30, 2000
  • EU: December 8, 2000
  • JP: January 25, 2001
Game Boy Color
  • JP: November 30, 2000
  • NA: December 2000
  • EU: December 15, 2000
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Dreamcast and Xbox versions were planned and even advertised, but they were cancelled for unknown reasons.

Reception

The PlayStation version received "mixed" reviews, while the PC version received "generally unfavorable reviews", according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[4][5] David Chen of NextGen said that the former version was "a lot better than we could have expected – still not great, but not at all bad."[17] In Japan, Famitsu gave the same console version a score of 27 out of 40.[9] Nintendo Power gave the Game Boy Color version a mixed review, over a month before it was released Stateside.[18]

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