The Raiders of the Lost Ark video game for the Atari VCS was the first Indiana Jones video game released and first video game adaptation of a film. The game designed and programmed by Howard Scott Warshaw is loosely based on the film. As such, neither René Emile Belloq nor the Nazis appear.
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The game is set in Cairo in 1936, and the player must head into the marketplace to grab a flute and play it to prevent Indiana Jones from being bitten by a snake. Indy equips his whip, gun, a machete and bomb, utilizing the player two joystick, and then he must find a crack in a wall and detonate the bomb to allow entrance into the Temple of the Warriors.
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The packaging, manual, and advertising artwork was painted by Atari Art Director James Kelly.
