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Encyclopedia > Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (video game)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the title of three different types of software games released for various video and computer home systems. The format of each particular video or computer game is different, but they all loosely follow the film's storyline.


The Action Game

Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade: The Action Game was released for the DOS, Amiga Amstrad, CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Game Boy, NES, Genesis, MSX ZX Spectrum. Each version of the game is similar, with slight differences in the quality of the graphics and sound. This is a side-scrolling adventure game where you control the famous Dr. Jones through various side-scrolling levels from the film, armed with your quick reflexes the trademark whip. The game was panned by most critics for its weak graphics, sound and playability. The acronym DOS stands for disk operating system, an operating system component for computers that provides the abstraction of a file system resident on hard disk or floppy disk secondary storage. ... In computing, Amiga is a range of home/personal computers primarily using the Motorola 68000 processor family, whose development started in 1982, initially as a game machine. ... Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc, usually known as Amstrad, is a company formed in 1968 by Sir Alan Michael Sugar in the UK, and based in Brentwood in Essex, England. ... CPC may be an acronym for: Canada Post Corporation Choroid plexus cyst Clinical-Pathological Conference College Preparatory Center Communist Party of China Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Communist Party of Canada Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) Computer Process Controls Conservative Party of Canada Community Patent Convention Cost Per Click Custom... The Atari 520 ST The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was commercially popular from 1985 to the early 1990s. ... Commodore 64 (1982) The Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64/CBM64, C=64) is a home computer with 64 kilobytes of RAM that was popular in the 1980s. ... The original Game Boys design set the standard for handheld gaming consoles. ... Nes is: A municipality in the county of Akershus in Norway, see Nes, Akershus. ... Genesis (Greek: Γένεσις, having the meanings of birth, creation, cause, beginning, source and origin), also called The First Book of Moses, is the first book of Torah (five books of Moses), and is the first book of the Tanakh, part of the Hebrew Bible; it is also the first book of... ...


The Graphic Adventure

See Also Indiana_Jones_and_the_Last_Crusade:_The_Graphic_Adventure Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1989, published by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts). ...


Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure is a popular graphic icon adventure game (similar to Maniac Mansion or Secret of Monkey Island) released by LucasArts for the DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST in 1989. In the game you controll Dr. Jones as he must interact with various characters and items from the film in order to find the secret of the Holy Grail. A second version of the game was released for 256-color and added voice actors. Of all the software adaptions of the film, this one is the most popular. Maniac Mansion is a graphical adventure game originally released in 1987 by LucasArts. ... LucasArts Entertainment Company (sometimes shortened to LEC), is a video game developer and publisher. ... The acronym DOS stands for disk operating system, an operating system component for computers that provides the abstraction of a file system resident on hard disk or floppy disk secondary storage. ... In computing, Amiga is a range of home/personal computers primarily using the Motorola 68000 processor family, whose development started in 1982, initially as a game machine. ... The Atari 520 ST The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was commercially popular from 1985 to the early 1990s. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade: The 2nd NES Game

A second NES game was producd by Taito based on the Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade Film. It is a side-scrolling action adventure game, mixed in with some min-games involving timed puzzels. ...


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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (590 words)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1989, published by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts).
Jones just returns from the reclaim of the Cross of Coronado when approached by Donovan who tells him about the Holy Grail and the loss of his father.
The game was originally released with EGA graphics; it was later updated with VGA graphics and an in-game orchestral soundtrack for the FM Towns; only the VGA graphics were backported to the DOS re-released version.
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