[2] It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, IBM PC compatibles (as a self-booting disk), TRS-80, and TI-99/4A.

The character appears to have a bitter personality as he thinks that his boss Craige should treat him as a partner instead of an assistant.

The call is from a woman named Rose Ellington, who wants to sponsor an expedition to discover the pyramid that her archaeologist father was not able to.

The player's character egoistically and hungry for attention tells the woman he is more than capable of taking the job and decides not to inform Craige about the call.

After years of research, Dr. Ellington managed to decipher a portion of the text, indicating the general location of a pyramid that was not known of.

The adventurer, desperate to control the situation, commanded the workers to dig aimlessly and even browbeat them to work on a holy day.

As the game begins, the player awakens to realize that he has been drugged by his men, who have stolen most of the equipment and abandoned the camp.

It praised the sophisticated text parser, and described creator Michael Berlyn's prose as "exciting and fast-paced, with occasional bits of humor".