By December 1988, the Nintendo Entertainment System had already seen two separate editions of the Temple of Doom game. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom satisfied both of these categories.Īside from the original arcade version, in 1987 ports were released for the Atari ST, Commodore 64 (completely independent ports for NTSC and PAL regions), Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and MSX. Their second idea was to produce game versions of popular movies and television. The first strategy was to take games that were already popular on arcade, such as Contra, and port them to home console versions. Companies such as Konami, Capcom and Acclaim Entertainment derived many of their gaming ideas from two sources to better capitalize on the growing industry. The NES, at its peak, controlled 90% of the 8-bit market in the United States. Nintendo of America's Nintendo Entertainment System was the best-selling console system and almost all video game developers and publishers wanted to contribute the video game library. This version was also the first translated from any of the movies in the Indiana Jones series into an arcade game, although Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 and Indiana Jones in the Lost Kingdom for the Commodore 64 had come out in 19 respectively. The game takes place over three zones that are based on the movie's plot, where the objective is to free the slave children and recover the Sankara stones. This version was a platform and fighting game and featured theme music and sound clips from the actual film. A year later, in 1985, Atari Games capitalized on the franchise by releasing the initial version of the game on arcade machine.
The film version of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was released in 1984 and starred Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. Reception of the game was generally negative. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom gives the player control of Indiana Jones as he makes his way through the temple in a series of 12 levels or "waves." In the final wave, the player must defeat the villain of the film, Mola Ram, on a rope bridge that recreates the final scene in the movie. After a lawsuit, Tengen's unlicensed version was pulled from the shelves and Mindscape's became the standard. The resulting product differed from the arcade version in several aspects, but kept the same underlying premise and style.īy December 1988, there were two versions of the game available, distributed by Tengen and Mindscape, although the software itself was identical. The game is based on the arcade game and film of the same name. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is an action game released in 1988 for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
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