While Indiana Jones has greatly influenced the world of video games, Pitfall! to Rick Dangerous via Tomb Raider and Uncharted, the famous adventurer has, ironically, always been very cautious when it comes to adapting his own stories. Rather judge. In 39 years, there are only twenty games (not counting edutainment), where Star Wars has nearly 80 (still not counting educational games). Astonishing in the sense that the universe of Indiana Jones, a mixture of action, humor and romance, seems to have everything it takes to lend itself to this exercise. We took advantage of the officialization of the next game in the franchise to return to the character's video game journey, paved with several masterpieces and several disillusions.
At the beginning of the 80s , Indiana tries a breakthrough
Although the license adaptations are few, since 1982, date of release of Raiders of the Lost Ark in the cinema, we find in parallel Raiders of the Lost Ark on Atari 2600. The The title is only inspired by the film since several important characters (including Belloq) do not appear. We can nevertheless understand this state of affairs since at the time, the power of the console absolutely did not allow the emphasis on the narrative aspect. We will also point out the absence of Nazis, main enemy of Spielberg's film, here replaced by snakes, spiders and other Tsetse flies. The result is a very dispensable game that is strongly linked to its time and to the machine that drives it.
