History VideoGame / IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis

** Indy can read a collage bulletin board message "[[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial Edward Turner: phone home]]."

* {[Foreshadowing}}: Indy messes with Sophia Hapgood's presentation and causes the Atlantean horned "god"[[note]]A pretty unconvincing stage prop[[/note]] to slide in on a rope and pulley before whirling around the stage and catching fire, burning to a cinder. At the game's climax, [[spoiler:this is exactly what happens to Dr. Ubermann when the Atlantean God Machine transforms him into a horned energy being.]]

* OverlyLongGag: In the opening credits. Indy arrives in the attic of his university via his trademark CrashInThroughTheCeiling on a rope, and begins searching for an important artifact. Then, the floor gives way and he crashes through to the room below and continues his search. Then he falls through ''that'' floor and lands in his own office. He searches a bookcase whichtopples down on him sending him through ''that'' floor too. Finally he examines an idol of a cat which proves to be [[CatsAreMean not quite an inert statue after all]], and sends him reeling back, crashing down a flight of stairs to the basement...

* OverlyLongGag: In the opening credits. Indy arrives in the attic of his university by CrashInThroughTheCeiling on a rope, and begins searching for an important artifact. Then, the floor gives way and he crashes through to the room below and continues his search. Then he falls through ''that'' floor and lands in his own office. He searches a bookcase whichtopples down on him sending him through ''that'' floor too. Finally he examines an idol of a cat which proves to be [[CatsAreMean not quite an inert statue after all]], and sends him reeling back, crashing down a flight of stairs to the basement...

The first (and the most well known) is an AdventureGame with painted cinematic screen-by-screen backgrounds, while the second was subtitled "the action game" (it was more like an ActionAdventure, viewed from an faux 3d [[IsometricProjection isometric perspective]], and based solely on a few select moments from the point and click adventure version). The action game is [[CanonDiscontinuity mostly forgotten today]]. This article, for the most part, discusses the adventure game, the second Indiana Jones adventure using Creator/LucasArts's SCUMM engine,[[note]]Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion -- Maniac Mansion being the game for which it was originally designed[[/note]] released three years after ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''.

* StoryBranching: Early on the player must choose one of three paths: The "Team" path has Sophia Hapgood join Indy as backup, the "Wits" path has a plethora of complex puzzles, and the "Fists" path has lots of action sequences and fist-fighting. Each path has a different plot, including different {{cutscene}}s and locations to visit. Some [[ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest needed items in a given path]] become [[RedHerring useless in another one]]. Story and gameplay converge again in Atlantis, with some room for MultipleEndings as mentioned above.

* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler: The Atlantean ascension machine is very bad at making gods and very good at making monsters. Even a "successful" god only lasts less than half a minute before dissipating into nothingness. The comics reveal the God Machine is really just a random mutation machine created by the misguided Atlanteans due to their incomplete understanding, and the ''real'' "gods" were just AncientAstronauts (in space suits!) using SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology.]]

* ILoveNuclearPower: The Nazis, [[spoiler:The Atlanteans]]. The good guys are afraid they want orichalcum for nefarious purposes, since a single bead contains enormous power. It turns out [[spoiler:They want to use it to turn on the god machine]].

* DomedHometown: Atlantis is an UnderwaterBase which happens to be an AdvancedAncientAcropolis which sank into the ocean 5,000 years ago. It's thoroughly Ragnarok-proofed despite sitting on a volcano.

* AllThereInTheManual: The comic adaptation explains a lot, like the connection between the Atlanteans' SchizoTech and the reason for the God Machine. [[spoiler:[[AncientAstronauts It was aliens.]] They had horns, gave the Atlanteans some technology and Orichalcum, [[NeglectfulPrecursors and when they left,]] the Atlanteans, misguided souls that they were, tried to bring them back by turning normal people into "gods." Unfortunately, it didn't work and they became mutants.]]

** Looking around Indy's office references a few artifacts from his adventures in the movies, and he also mentions a glowing purple meteor he has there, seemingly a reference to the one in pioneering Creator/LucasArts game ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion''.

** Looking around Indy's office references a few artifacts from his adventures in the movies, and he also mentions a glowing purple meteor he has there, seemingly a reference to the one in pioneering LucasArts game ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion''.

** Looking around Indy's office has a few artifacts referring to his adventures in the movies, and he also mentions a glowing purple meteor he has there, seemingly a reference to the one in pioneering LucasArts game ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion''.

%%* RagnarokProofing: Atlantis. Of course, it's built out of [[BambooTechnology stone and bronze]].

** Even in the good ending, Indy has made another earth-shattering discovery, only for have it again snatched away, this time by [[spoiler:the entire Atlantis being destroyed in volcanic eruptions and for good measure even the volcano collapses and sinks beneath the sea]].

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: It's about Atlantis. Guess who built the Mayan pyramids, the [[LivingLabyrinth Labyrinth]] of [[ALoadOfBull King Minos]], etc?

* HistoricalInJoke: Indy wonders why the Minoan civilization had this obsession with [[ALoadOfBull bull-headed figures]] (like the tale of the Minotaur living in a labyrinth underneath Knossos); it's implied that the Minoans tried to imitate the style of Atlantis and it's very likely that they got their hands on a few of the Atlantean horned mutants product of their failed experiments (maybe the King Minos' Minotaur was one).