Tombs and Treasures was one of those games that could of been really cool if they would of put more thought in the interface. Tombs and Treasures (I will refer to it as T&T) is a adventure game, one of the few to be on the NES. The story goes like this: A processor with a team of seven men go to the accident Mayan ruins, slowly they begin to disappear,one by one... only the guide returns. The daughter of the Professor, and a friend decide to go into the ruin and find out what happened to the people.

The puzzles are interesting... and sometimes daunting but the awkward interface makes it very hard to solve some of these puzzles. In 99.9% of all adventure games the USE command lets you use one object in your inventory on ether a object in the game world or another object in your inventory. Not in T&T (which is the %00.1), nope USE means that your using the object on yourself, of course they don't tell you this in the manual. Instead you must use PUT instead of USE. It also has another quirk, and that's when you are talking to people. You have to use the CHANGE command to talk, but that makes no sense because that command is supposed to change party member order!

T&T also tried to add some RPG elements into the game, you walk around the overworld like any other RPG game, with your party members following behind you. There are also battles with enemies, but they are basically to prevent you from entering a area before you solve certain puzzles in other areas, kida lame.

-Chip Scheppel