The Mask of the Sun (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Mask of the Sun is an adventure game developed by Ultrasoft and published in North America by Broderbund and in Europe by Ariolasoft. It was released in 1982 for Apple II, Atari XL and Commodore 64. The hero is Mac Steele, an archaeologist who needs to find the Mask of the Sun in order to obtain an antidote to a poison that afflicts him from an artifact that he found. The game mostly takes place in Mexico in the Aztec ruins. Gameplay is text-based; however there are some graphics. The graphics differ from other graphic adventures of the time by having crude animations in some areas.