The sound reminds me of a bad Atari VCS game. Way to be two generations before your time, Color Dreams.

"But why is it between his legs?"

You have to ask?

So who is the character supposed to be? Perseus? Hercules?

I read an article about Color Dreams somewhere once and the developers said that they had these two game testers who were really good at everything so they would always bitch about the difficulty, so this one programmer would always indulge them and try to make the games hard enough to be challenging to those guys, which is why pretty much all of the Color Dreams games were insanely difficult to the point of frustration.

I like that his head is tilting at the angle that indicates (to me, at least) that he's trying to stem off a bloody nose.

Why would you want to escape from Atlantis

It looks like they were trying to rip off Adventure for the 2600 and completely fucked it up. That's... almost impressively incompetent.

Also, keydick.

So a mythical civilization that predates Christianity has a land of the dead with crosses on the headstones?

Everything about this screams fever dream.

Why does Death bring you back to life?

Can you help an angry Amish man in a dress get the key to the gatehouse of the Masonic temple before he's brained by debris from Tennis Ball mountain?

Everything looks like it came off an 80's home computer... which it most likely was programmed on.

The music and the beard lead me to believe that this game's original title was Torgo's Escape from Atlantis.