History VideoGame / AtlantisTheLostTales

* HeroesWantRedheads: Seth and Anna.

* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: The origins of the statues are uncovered in the first game. The statues are shown to have been made to appease a non-existent god, who was, in fact, another statue.

After [[AuthorExistenceFailure CryoInteractive went under]], all seemed lost for the series. However, AtlantisInteractiveEntertainment picked up the series and made a sequel, titled '''Atlantis Evolution'''.

''Atlantis: The Lost Tales'' is a fantasy adventure game from [=CryoInteractive=], released in 1997. The game is similar to ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', and has four sequels: ''Atlantis II'' (''Beyond Atlantis'' outside Europe) (1999), ''Atlantis III: The New World'' (''Beyond Atlantis II'') (2001), ''Atlantis Evolution'' (2004) and ''The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy'' (2006). The series has a [[CoolAirship flying ship]] as its signature vessel, at least for the first three games.

* AncientEgypt / AncientGreece: Atlantean architecture and clothing styles seem to be a mix of the two.

''Atlantis: The Lost Tales'' is a fantasy adventure game from [=CryoInteractive=], released in 1997. The game is similar to ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', and has four sequels: ''Atlantis II'' (''Beyond Atlantis'' outside Europe) (1999), ''Atlantis III: The New World'' (''Beyond Atlantis II'') (2001), ''Atlantis Evolution'' (2004) and ''The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy'' (2006). The series has a FlyingShip as its signature vessel, at least for the first three games.

* TheMaze: The challenge of the champions. Made harder by the fact that spaces are unsafe even when the Minotaur isn't there.

* TheCreon: Subverted by Creon in the first game. He's actually TheStarscream to the queen.
* TheMaze: The challenge of champions. You have to remember where you saw the Minotaur too because these places are unsafe even after he's gone.

* AlternateLandmarkHistory: The Stonehenge was built to keep the Hidden Knowledge imprisoned.

* BirthmarkOfDestiny: Ten, the main character in the second game has one on his left palm. The people whose bodies he possesses get it as well while he does.

* CelestialBureaucracy: The Chinese Hell in ''Beyond Atlantis''.
* CircleOfStandingStones: Where the Hidden Knowledge is. A ritual unearths it as a metal OracularHead.
* CrystalSkull: The story of the third game revolves around one.

* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: The origins of the statues are uncovered in the first game.
* EvilChancellor: Creon in the first game, who kidnaps the Queen to become King.

* GodGuise: Seth takes a god's statue's mask and pretends to be him to scare the Inuits.

* AHellOfATime: Neither the Chinese or Mayan underworld has anything beyond mild annoyance. Occasionally.

* {{Matriarchy}}: Atlantean society considers women more important than men, without being sexist. Until the villains take over, when both of these things change.

* NonStandardGameOver: See ButThouMust above.
* PowerCrystal: The crystals that drive all of the Atlantean technology and also have other abilities.

* DullSurprise: The first choice that the first game gives you is whether or not to get a Meljans, a fellow companion some wine. The game acts like he's bullying you into doing it, and it expects you to stand up to him; Unfortunately, the voice acting makes it sound like he's simply asking [[GuideDangIt for some wine]].

* MeaningfulName: Creon. [[spoiler: An unusual example, since he inverts [[TheCreon the trope]] that he is named after.]]

The last game in the series, '''The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy''', takes part in 1937. Howard Brooks, a young aeronautical engineer, returns from a conference in Germany. On board the ''{{Hindenburg}}'' zeppelin taking him to New York, Howard is attacked by members of an occult sect. When Howard wakes up, he finds himself alone. Eventually he meets a man claiming to have followed him for a long time, and that he and Howard are the last ones left on the zeppelin.

* {{Hindenburg}}: It plays an important part in the fifth game and doesn't come to an unfortunate end.

''Atlantis: The Lost Tales'' is a fantasy adventure game from [=CryoInteractive=], released in 1997. The game is similar to ''{{Myst}}'', and has four sequels: ''Atlantis II'' (''Beyond Atlantis'' outside Europe) (1999), ''Atlantis III: The New World'' (''Beyond Atlantis II'') (2001), ''Atlantis Evolution'' (2004) and ''The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy'' (2006). The series has a FlyingShip as its signature vessel, at least for the first three games.

* [[spoiler: TheCreon]]: [[spoiler: Subverted by Creon in the first game. He's actually TheStarscream to the queen.]]

* [[spoiler: TheCreon]]: [[spoiler: Subverted for Creon in the first game. He's actually TheStarscream for the queen.]]

The last game in the series, ''The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy'', plays in 1937. Howard Brooks, a young aeronautical engineer, returns from a conference in Germany. On board the ''{{Hindenburg}}'' zeppelin taking him to New York, Howard is attacked by members of an occult sect. When Howard wakes up, he finds himself alone. Eventually he meets a man claiming to have followed him for a long time, and that he and Howard are the last ones left on the zeppelin.

''Atlantis: The Lost Tales'' follows the story of Seth, one of the Queen's new Companions, the personal guardians of the Queen of Atlantis. He discovers after he arrives that the Queen disappeared a few days prior. It turns out a power struggle is taking place between the Queen and the Guards of the Consul. The leader of the Guards, Creon, wishes to replace the current goddess of the moon, Ammu, the most worshipped of Atlantis' gods, with Sa'at, the sun god, and ultimately wants to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]] in the name of Sa'at, using a new superweapon.

''Atlantis II'', or ''Beyond Atlantis'', is mostly a sequel InNameOnly, although Atlantis does make a short appearance in its more traditional (sunken) form. Ten, the Bearer of Light, is sent on a quest to Shambhala to confront the Bearer of Dark so that balance can be returned to the Universe. To find Shambhala, he must gather several pieces that make up the "road to Shambhala" from different locations and time periods: China, Ireland and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.

''Atlantis III: The New World'' (or ''Beyond Atlantis II'') is the next sequel. [expansion needed]

After [[AuthorExistenceFailure CryoInteractive went under]], all seemed lost for the series. However, AtlantisInteractiveEntertainment picked up the series and made a sequel:titled ''Atlantis Evolution''.