Raiders of The Lost Ark [1982] - Atari 2600 - Walkthrough

Raiders is one of the first dynamic adventures on consoles, and the first to allow the use of an inventory with multiple objects. The game will consist of having to recover the ark, exchanging objects in the market, using special objects to view the map and jumping with a parachute... all nice but, the graphics are really basic, and there is no way to understand in the game what you have to do to go to the next step.. the only way is to use the clues contained in the manual...

[@Mrshoujo]

For the time when it came out & for the system it is, Raiders of the Lost Ark was pretty advanced. This simple machine was running this complex game. I still remember the Saturday we got our cartridge in the mail from Atari Club & spent the rest of the day figuring it out, even calling the 800 number for the free map & tip sheet. We ended up beating later but the map was a nice bonus.

[@Nullius_ingame]

I wonder what it must have been like back then, trying to find maps and solutions to win a game... things that a millennial struggles to understand. Well, to tell the truth, in my day there were still "official bibles" of various games that explained everything, absolutely everything..I still remember the one from FF7! In any case, Raiders must have been a real revolution back then, with people trying to understand what they were dealing with..