Indiana Jones: Greatest Adventures

by JVC

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00004TMFD
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,689 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Blast from the past.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Indy side-scroller., August 1, 2001

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Ben (Smyrna, Tennessee United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Indiana Jones: Greatest Adventures (Video Game)

Let me start by saying I'm not very fond of 2D platform games at all. However, there are a select few that I do enjoy, and this is one of them.

Besides the fact that it's Indiana Jones, it's also a pretty fun and action-packed game. The music is excellent, which makes since because it was taken directly from Indiana Jones movies. The graphics are quite good for the SNES, and especially so for a side-scroller. Indy animates very well, and the control is quite good.

Like many other Lucasfilm games, this one is very challenging. However, I can accept that because the challenge comes from the game itself, not from poor control or design flaws. There are parts in this game that are not ridiculously hard, but they do require a whole lot of practice. You also have to use some strategy because many of the enemies are too tough for Indy to go toe-to-toe with, especially in the hardest difficulty. This game plays a lot like the Super Star Wars series for the SNES, except that Indy can't do that double-jump thing that you could in those games.

The story covers the span of all three Indiana Jones movies, in order: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and Last Crusade. You can easily recognize many scenes from the movies that were implemented pretty accurately into the game, which is good. Too many times I've seen games based on movies make entire long, drawn-out stages out of one very minor event. There is no battery saving, but you can use passwords.

Overall, it's a great game, especially for a side-scroller. And, it's one of the few movie-based games that does not completely mess up in the translation.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best old school Indiana Jones game!, January 18, 2010

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John Lindsey "John" (Socorro, New Mexico USA.) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Indiana Jones: Greatest Adventures (Video Game)

This is truly one of the best movie game adaptations around! Thanks to JVC and Lucasarts after doing the satisfying Star Wars Super Trilogy for SNES, they decided to give a shot to another George Lucas franchise called Indiana Jones.

In this game you get to be in all three of the classic Indiana Jones movies all in one game instead of three like the Star Wars SNES games. This one plays sort of like those Castlevania sidescroller type of games as up play Indy and recreate legendary scenes from the motion picture trilogy, here in this game you get to use fists, your whip and a pistol to go against enemies and bosses. The graphics are suprisingly good for the 16-bit era including the sound effects which even uses some sound clips from all three movies in this one with some stills from the movies during cutscenes.

Some of the levels can be difficult but they require patience and satragedy even for bosses as you fight everyone from General Toht to zombiefied Walter Donovan which i found a bit kind of weird. What else i like about this game is that it actually gives you a password to write down so you can continue where you left off is what i believe is a good thing.

The Controls are even quite simple if you look in the manuel or online on how to some of the stuff or just by learning. If you seek an old school Indy game that doesn't blow then check out this one, stay away from the NES Temple of Doom and Last Crusade games as i say stick with this one.

5.0 out of 5 stars Indy the way we love him and remember him!, February 18, 2011

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anonymous rogue - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Indiana Jones: Greatest Adventures (Video Game)

This is a great snes game, with great levels, music, gameplay and nostalgia for those who love the series! Re-live the adventures of everyones fedora donning and whip carrying adventurer of an archaeologist in glorious 16-bit graphics! 10/10