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''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a very loose adaptation of [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the movie]] for the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}, written by Howard Scott Warshaw and released by Creator/{{Atari}} in 1982.
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''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a very loose adaptation of [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the movie]] for the UsefulNotes/{{Atari Platform/{{Atari 2600}}, written by Howard Scott Warshaw and released by Creator/{{Atari}} in 1982.
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* ThreeQuartersView: Like VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda, a mix of TopDownView, SideView, and front view.
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* ThreeQuartersView: Like VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda, ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', a mix of TopDownView, SideView, and front view.
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While it is very much a product of its time, complete with FlipScreenScrolling, it is also notable as one of the earliest examples of an ActionAdventure game.
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While it is very much a product of its time, complete with FlipScreenScrolling, it is also notable as one of the earliest examples of an ActionAdventure game.
game. It also had the unique gimmick in that it required two joysticks to play, one to move around and the other to use items.
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* SecretPath: Did you somehow get trapped in the temple prison without whip or pistol to shoot away the walls? You can escape through the bottom of the screen, though that starts two doors slowly closing in the temple entryway, turning the whole game into a TimedPuzzle.
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* SecretPath: Did you somehow get trapped in the temple prison without whip or pistol to shoot away the walls? You can escape through the bottom of the screen, though that starts two doors slowly closing in the temple entryway, turning the whole game into a TimedPuzzle.TimedMission.
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''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a very loose adaptation of [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the movie]] for the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}, written by Howard Scott Warshaw and released by UsefulNotes/{{Atari}} Creator/{{Atari}} in 1982.
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''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a very loose adaptation of [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the movie]] for the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}, written by Howard Scott Warshaw and released by UsefulNotes/{{Atari}} in 1982. Despite all the changes, it's a good, if at times confusing, ActionAdventure game.
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''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a very loose adaptation of [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the movie]] for the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}, written by Howard Scott Warshaw and released by UsefulNotes/{{Atari}} in 1982. Despite all
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''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a very loose adaptation of [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the movie]] for the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}, written by Howard Scott Warshaw and released by UsefulNotes/{{Atari}} in 1982.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Warp points in the temple.
* {{Backtracking}}
* CollisionDamage: Snakes and some of the other monsters.
* {{Backtracking}}
* CollisionDamage: Snakes and some of the other monsters.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Warp There are warp points in the temple.
* {{Backtracking}}
temple, in order to make the frequently required {{Backtracking}} less taxing.
* CollisionDamage:Snakes It is inflicted by snakes and some of the other monsters.
* {{Backtracking}}
* CollisionDamage:
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* Instant180DegreeTurnInstant180DegreeTurn: The way every character moves, as was commonplace at the time.
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* VideoGameLives: Three.
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* VideoGameLives: Three.Indy has three.
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* WideOpenSandbox: Not to the extent of VideoGame/{{Adventure}}, but there's still more than a dozen different rooms (not counting all the secret rooms in the various mesas, which all look alike), and you need to visit just about all of them to finish the game.
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* WideOpenSandbox: Not to the extent of VideoGame/{{Adventure}}, ''VideoGame/{{Adventure}}'', but there's still more than a dozen different rooms (not counting all the secret rooms in the various mesas, which all look alike), and you need to visit just about all of them to finish the game.
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* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Nothing happens.
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* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Nothing happens.You start out right where you left off. Subverted in that whatever killed you is probably still on the screen, still targeting you.
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* GraphicsInducedSuperDeformed: Played straight with the merchants in the marketplace; they're just heads. Indy is an inversion; he has a hat and a body, but no head.
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* GraphicsInducedSuperDeformed: Played straight with the merchants in the marketplace; they're just heads. Indy is an inversion; inversion: he has a hat and a body, but no head.
** Even the [[http://homepage.isomedia.com/~tonyc/2600/faq/INDYSOLV.HTM solution sheet that you had to send away for]] doesn't mention the secret entrance, though it does mention the headpiece and explains how to use it. It also explains some of the time-based puzzles more clearly.
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* InvisibleMonsters: The ground in the marketplace has a bar of a darker color running down the middle of the screen, where the two merchants are. If you touch any of the three baskets, snakes ''the same color as that bar'' start coming down from the top of the screen. You can't see them when they are over the bar. This can produce the effect of Indy dying for no apparent reason while trying to buy something.
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* InvisibleMonsters: The ground in the marketplace has a bar of a darker color running down the middle of the screen, where the two merchants are. If you touch any of the three baskets, snakes ''the same color as that bar'' start coming down from the top of the screen. You can't see them when they are over the bar. This can produce the effect of Indy dying for no apparent reason while trying to buy something. You quickly learn to have the Flute active at all times.
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* MookMaker: An endless stream of snakes come down from the top of the first screen.
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* MookMaker: An endless stream of snakes come down from the top of the first screen. You can whip or shoot them, but they keep returning.
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* OneBulletAtATime
* OneHitPointWonder
* OpenWorldGame: Not to the extent of VideoGame/{{Adventure}}, but there's still more than a dozen different rooms (not counting all the secret rooms in the various mesas, which all look alike), and you need to visit just about all of them to finish the game.
* PainfullySlowProjectile: The pistol.
* OneHitPointWonder
* OpenWorldGame: Not to the extent of VideoGame/{{Adventure}}, but there's still more than a dozen different rooms (not counting all the secret rooms in the various mesas, which all look alike), and you need to visit just about all of them to finish the game.
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* OneBulletAtATime
* OneHitPointWonder
* OpenWorldGame: Not toOneBulletAtATime: The pistol works like this. The whip, too, since it's depicted as a short-ranged projectile. The Grenade uses the extent of VideoGame/{{Adventure}}, but there's still more than a dozen different rooms (not counting all same graphic, so you can't fire the secret rooms in pistol or use the various mesas, which all look alike), and you need to visit just about all of them to finish whip while a grenade is on the game.
screen.
* OneHitPointWonder: Like most video game protagonists at the time.
* PainfullySlowProjectile: The pistol. Fortunately, the Thief's pistol has the same limitation.
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* OpenWorldGame: Not to
* OneHitPointWonder: Like most video game protagonists at the time.
* PainfullySlowProjectile: The pistol. Fortunately, the Thief's pistol has the same limitation.
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* PressXToDie: The map room is trickier than it looks. The path you walk down is a narrow ledge, with a fall into the Valley of Poison on either side. The key reveals a part of the room where you can walk to the right, and with the headpiece of the Staff of Ra, reveal the Ark's location. However: ''You can only walk over there with the key''. Equipping the headpiece means you are stuck in place; the slightest move will send you plummeting into the valley. You have to re-equip the key to walk back to the path.
* PuzzleReset: The temple.
* PuzzleReset: The temple.
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* PressXToDie: The map room is trickier than it looks. The path you walk down is a narrow ledge, with a fall into the Valley of Poison on either side. The key reveals a part of the room where you can walk to the right, and with the headpiece of the Staff of Ra, reveal the Ark's location.location when the Timepiece strikes noon. However: ''You can only walk over there with the key''. Equipping the headpiece means you are stuck in place; the slightest move will send you plummeting into the valley. You have to re-equip the key to walk back to the path.
* PuzzleReset: The temple. Moreover, it's a time-based puzzle; the Ankh, the Hourglass, and the Chai only appear at certain times (as shown on the Timepiece)
* PuzzleReset: The temple. Moreover, it's a time-based puzzle; the Ankh, the Hourglass, and the Chai only appear at certain times (as shown on the Timepiece)
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* WarpWhistle: One of the objects in the Temple.
* AWinnerIsYou: The ending screen is the same as the StartScreen, except that the pedestal doesn't lower you all the way to the bottom, but to a distance determined by your score.
* AWinnerIsYou: The ending screen is the same as the StartScreen, except that the pedestal doesn't lower you all the way to the bottom, but to a distance determined by your score.
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* WarpWhistle: One of the objects in the Temple.
Temple, the Ankh. It not only generates a grappling hook, it teleports you to the mesa field first.
* WideOpenSandbox: Not to the extent of VideoGame/{{Adventure}}, but there's still more than a dozen different rooms (not counting all the secret rooms in the various mesas, which all look alike), and you need to visit just about all of them to finish the game.
* AWinnerIsYou: The ending screen is the same as the StartScreen, except that the pedestal doesn't lower you all the way to the bottom, but to a distance determined by your score. The higher your score, the higher the pedestal's final position.
* WideOpenSandbox: Not to the extent of VideoGame/{{Adventure}}, but there's still more than a dozen different rooms (not counting all the secret rooms in the various mesas, which all look alike), and you need to visit just about all of them to finish the game.
* AWinnerIsYou: The ending screen is the same as the StartScreen, except that the pedestal doesn't lower you all the way to the bottom, but to a distance determined by your score. The higher your score, the higher the pedestal's final position.
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* TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames
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** Even worse: one of the thing that the manual explicitly tells you to do ''actually causes you to lose points from your final score!'' You have to use the not-mentioned headpiece to enter a not-mentioned secret entrance of the temple (rather than blowing a hole in the wall with a grenade) in order to avoid losing the points.
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** Even worse: one of the thing things that the manual explicitly tells you to do ''actually causes you to lose points from your final score!'' You have to use the not-mentioned headpiece to enter a not-mentioned secret entrance of the temple (rather than blowing a hole in the wall with a grenade) in order to avoid losing the points.
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** Even worse: one of the thing that the manual explicitly tells you to do ''actually causes you to lose points from your final score!'' You have to use the not-mentioned headpiece to enter a not-mentioned secret entrance of the temple (rather than blowing a hole in the wall with a grenade) in order to avoid losing the points.
* OpenWorldGame: Not to the extent of VideoGame/{{Adventure}}, but there's still more than a dozen different rooms (not counting all the secret rooms in the various mesas, which all look alike), and you need to visit just about all of them to finish the game.
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''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a very loose adaptation of [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the movie]] for the {{Atari 2600}}, written by Howard Scott Warshaw and released by {{Atari}} in 1982. Despite all the changes, it's a good, if at times confusing, ActionAdventure game.
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''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a very loose adaptation of [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the movie]] for the {{Atari UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}, written by Howard Scott Warshaw and released by {{Atari}} UsefulNotes/{{Atari}} in 1982. Despite all the changes, it's a good, if at times confusing, ActionAdventure game.
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* CollisionDamage: Snakes.
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* CollisionDamage: Snakes.Snakes and some of the other monsters.
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''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a very loose adaptation of [[IndianaJones the movie]] for the {{Atari 2600}}, written by Howard Scott Warshaw and released by {{Atari}} in 1982. Despite all the changes, it's a good, if at times confusing, ActionAdventure game.
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''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a very loose adaptation of [[IndianaJones [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the movie]] for the {{Atari 2600}}, written by Howard Scott Warshaw and released by {{Atari}} in 1982. Despite all the changes, it's a good, if at times confusing, ActionAdventure game.
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* CommonplaceRare: The most expensive item, only available in the hard-to-reach Black Market, is... a shovel.
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* CommonplaceRare: CommonPlaceRare: The most expensive item, only available in the hard-to-reach Black Market, is... a shovel.
* EasterEgg: There is a VideoGame/{{Yar|sRevenge}} hidden in the mesa field. Also, if you get a high enough score, you see "[=HSW2=]", meaning Howard Scott Warshaw's second game.
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* EasterEgg: there is a [[YarsRevenge Yar]] hidden in the mesa field. Also, if you get a high enough score, you see "[=HSW2=]", meaning Howard Scott Warshaw's second game.
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* {{Expy}}: The inventory and puzzles in this game are kind of an expy of the inventory and puzzles in the ''{{VideoGame/Swordquest}}'' series.
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* {{Expy}}: The inventory and puzzles in this game are kind of an expy of the inventory and puzzles in the ''{{VideoGame/Swordquest}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Swordquest}}'' series.
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* {{Expy}}: The inventory and puzzles in this game are kind of an expy of the inventory and puzzles in the ''{{Swordquest}}'' series.
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* {{Expy}}: The inventory and puzzles in this game are kind of an expy of the inventory and puzzles in the ''{{Swordquest}}'' ''{{VideoGame/Swordquest}}'' series.
