Play Big Karnak Online

Big Karnak is this old-school arcade side-scroller where you play as an Egyptian pharaoh whose wife gets snatched by some winged monstrosity—classic setup, right? You’re basically running left to right, smacking skeletons and snakes with your sword (they die quick, but there’s always another one waiting). The first level’s straightforward—hack, slash, fight a big ugly boss at the end. Then things get interesting.

Second level throws you into a temple maze where you’ve gotta rescue a few trapped women and find a magic staff (thankfully, there’s a map, because I’d have gotten lost immediately). That staff becomes your best friend—suddenly you can zap enemies from a distance, which helps when the game starts throwing mini-bosses at you like confetti. The third level? Pure boss rush. No breathers, just one chaotic fight after another.

Oh, and the clock’s always ticking. Get hit too much, lose a life. Find power-ups to buy yourself time or hit harder. It’s simple but tense—like someone took an 80s arcade cabinet and distilled it into pure, frantic energy.