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40 Years Ago, The Stage Was Set For Indiana Jones To Reach His Full Potential

Ryan Britt

created: Aug. 23, 2025, noon | updated: Aug. 28, 2025, 7:37 a.m.

Today, we’re lucky to live in a time in which you can play what is arguably the best Indiana Jones video game ever made: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. To be clear, it’s not the first instant classic Indiana Jones video game, but when did Indiana Jones games become incredible? This was the third Indiana Jones game overall, following an at-home Atari version of Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1982, and an original home computer adventure in 1984 called Indiana Jones and the Lost Kingdom. Philosophically, despite the action-adventure aspect of Indiana Jones, the nature of these kinds of adventures is inherently a little bit cozy. Crucially, though, without this game coming first, it's questionable whether or not the leap from film to video game would have seemed viable for the Indiana Jones franchise.

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