captpackrat posted... One of my favorite games as a kid was an Atari 800 game called Mountain King.
If you were foolish enough to venture down to the bottom level of the mine, there was a giant spider that would suddenly rush out and if it caught you, it would encase you in a web. If you didn't escape by the time the spider returned, it would eat you alive. As you progressed through the levels the spider would get harder and harder to see, and more and more difficult to escape its web. At level 8, the spider became completely invisible, and impossible to escape from.
The spider can outrun you, so your only hope is to jump over him, or jump or climb away from the bottom of the mine. But there are tunnels where you can't jump, so the only thing you can do is run and hope you can get out of the tunnel before the spider catches you.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/6/2/AAQwHjAAEw36.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/6/3/AAQwHjAAEw37.jpg
Weirdly, while I haven't played Mountain King... the image of 2 swords over a pool sticks with me. I think it was used in other games such as Montezuma's Revenge as well