Raiders of the Lost Ark for Atari 2600
by Atari Inc.
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Platform: Atari 2600Publisher: Atari Inc.
Video Game Reviews of Raiders of the Lost Ark for Atari 2600
Customer Review: The Man With the Box-Hat...
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow, you can pick up this classic for less than a candy bar these days. This Atari 2600 adaptation of the movie really stretched the system as you had quite a few boards/screens (oooh), different pieces of music, including the famous theme plus the flute of the snake charmer that protected you from the squiggly line, and it took longer than most games of its day to complete.
It even required the operation of both joysticks--one to move Indy, who is defined by his box-hat, and the other to control his inventory of items like moneybags, a flute, a gun, the whip, etc. Because of this requirement, it was somewhat of a two-player adventure game. It's probably also one of the first games that provoked serious swearing at the TV screen back in the day. Just after you completed all of the steps that follow the film (buy this, avoid that guy, avoid that squiggly line, whip this, etc, etc) you could buy it at any moment from the raving lunatic in the market, or the falling boxes that Belog dropped on your head, or maybe you'd miss the parachute landing you need to make, when you have the shovel, to find the mound of dirt that hides the ark. And then you'd have to start all over and do it again, very carefully, with a quick hand to change from the moneybag to the gun. Yeah, this was an involved 2600 game.
Gotta give LucasArts credit for this one, it's memorable.
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