Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom

Manufacturer: Atari
Year: 1985
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Fighter
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color
19-inch Electrohome G07

Conversion Class: Atari System I
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 1 [Whip]

Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)

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Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom Description

Become Indiana Jones! Free kidnapped children by finding their cages and whipping them open. Jump into the mines for a wild ride on a mine cart. Make it to the bottom, and then grab the Sankhara stone from the altar.

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Cheats, Tricks and Bugs

At the difficulty select screen, whip all the hanging skeletons and both snakes to receive a 5,000 point "Completion Bonus." Whipping all the gas cannisters in the cage stage gives a "Pyro Bonus" and whipping every bone pile and snake in the altar stage gives a bonus also. When on suspension bridges over lava flows, whip enemy guards until they fall in the lava for additional bonus points!

Game Introduction

Obviously, this game was patterned after the movie Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom. The music sounds like it is right out of the movie and the digital audio clips are excellent. The graphics are colorful and do a good job of conveying the situation. Getting to play Indiana and whipping everything in sight is a blast -- just do not get carried away or Mola Ram shows up and flings flaming hearts at you!

Game Play

Whip everything that moves, even things that do not move. You can whip the cobras and watch their gory death. You can whip piles of bones and skeletons for extra points. Repeatedly whipping Thuggee guards is fun and you get to hear them wail in pain "Ooodleedlee...Ooodleedlee.." Your whip also lets you swing across holes. "Woah!" The minecart is loads of fun. "We walk from here!"I think the sankara stage is pretty easy though. "I'm not leaving without those stones!"

On the medium and hard levels (selectable at the beginning of the game by entering the corresponding doors) Indy must escape on the rope bridge and face Mola Ram once and for all, after obtaining all three Sankara stones. Playing the easy level will not include this level the first time Indy nabs all three stones. Instead, the screen will just mention that Indy escaped on the rope bridge before starting again on a tougher cage level.

VAPS Arcade Census

GAMES OWNED, WANTED, or FOR SALE BY MEMBERS OF THE VIDEO ARCADE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Very Common - There are 73 known instances of Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 50 of them are original dedicated machines, 3 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 20 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 57,111 video games (3,420 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 39 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There are 7 VAPS members currently looking for Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom. There are 2 VAPS members looking for Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom board sets.

For Sale - There are 3 VAPS members with Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom machines for sale. There is one VAPS member with an extra Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom circuit board for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

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Trivia

Based on the movie of the same name.

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