Lost Tomb is a twin-stick shooter written by Dan Lee and released as an arcade video game by Stern Electronics in 1982. Armed with a gun and single-use whips, the player uses dual joysticks to explore the chambers of a South American pyramid looking for treasure and fighting mummies, spiders, and scorpions.[5] The game was Stern's first arcade conversion kit and was intended for use with earlier machines from the company such as Scramble.[6][7] Lost Tomb contains microtransactions: at specific points in the game, 25 additional whips can be purchased by inserting a coin.

In 1984, Datasoft published home conversions for Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, and a self-booting disk for IBM PC compatibles. Additional whips can be purchased for points instead of real money.