History VideoGame / IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade

* AcceptableBreaksFromReality : [[AliensSpeakingEnglish NaziesSpeakingEnglish]]

** Indiana's office is full of them, the Sankara stones from ''IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' and artifacts from ''SamAndMax'', VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders, ''ManiacMansion'' and ''StarWars''.

** Second appearance ever -in Henry's house- of "Chuck, the plant" from ''ManiacMansion'' . In the demo it was named ''[[MonkeyIsland LeChuck]] the plant"

On 2009 the game was re-released on the PC, directly downloadable through {{Steam}}.

* HundredPercentCompletion: The game has "Indy Quotient" as score. It's two separate scores: one for what you had gained during the current playthrough, and another one which kept track of all score-giving actions you have accomplished in the game on any play. To gain full score in the latter includes doing things which are [[GuideDangIt nearly impossible]] or result in an instant death, such as punching Hitler in public

--->''I'm selling these fine leather jackets''

Two video games by LucasArts released in 1989, based on the popular ''IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' movie.

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" is a standard PlatformGame . Another console game with the same name was released years later, these two are [[FanonDiscontinuity mostly forgotten]] today.

Several key elements of the film were [[AdaptationDistillation not included]] while many other are revisited and done different. In keeping with Indiana's action-man persona, the game also features pure action scenes. Unlike most Lucasfilm adventures, you can die.

A new Indiana Jones adventure game was released by LucasArts in 1992, ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis''.

* DialogueTree: First appearance in a [[Lucasarts SCUMM game]].

** You can die in an (early) LucasArts game! The encounters and fights at Castle Brunwald and onboard the Zeppelin encourage the trope.

* ShoutOut: Many to other LucasArts / [=LucasFilm=] games and works, a customary house tradition.

This article discusses the 1989 PointAndClick graphic adventure game, developed by [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Ron Gilbert]], [[VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders David Fox]], Noah Falstein and [[SamAndMax Steve Purcell]].

* DialogueTree

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" is a standard PlatformGame . Another console game with the same name was released years later, these two are [[FanonDiscontinuity mostly forgotten]] today.

Indy then travels to some of the places seen in the movie, such as Venice and the catacombs, after meeting fellow archeologist Elsa Schneider. In the process he finds his father held captive in the Brunwald Castle, after passing through the mazelike corridors, fighting and avoiding guards. Then Elsa's double role is revealed when she steals the Grail Diary from Indy. After escaping, father and son pass through Berlin to reclaim the Diary and have a brief meeting with Hitler. Then they reach an airport, from where they intend to seek the Valley of the Crescent Moon, by Zeppelin or biplane.

* ActorAllusion: Well, to HarrisonFord, anyway:

* CopyProtection:
** Marcus would ask Indy to translate some symbols for him, which would need to be looked up in the manual. Failing to do so would let the game continue as normal - until a crucial point where Indy, at Donovan's place, would fail to translate a tablet concerning the Holy Grail (Indy mistakenly translates it as "Holy Grain"), prompting Donovan to say "Seems you're just an illegitimate copy of the man I thought you were." This protection was removed in later versions.

* {{Ghostapo}}: Nazis and the Holy Grail, immortal Hitler... Indy's quest is the prevention of the trope.

* MythologyGag:

* PixelHunt:

** There's a puzzle towards the end that, initially, can seem even worse. Just like in the movie, the buzzsaws in the Grail temple have to be passed by kneeling...however, there is no "kneel" command. The actual solution is to click the walking cursor on a small, specific patch of ground when trying to pass through the trap's trigger zone; while this seems like unfair pixel hunting at first, it's actually a meta-puzzle. The game comes packaged with its own Grail diary, a booklet containing veiled hints on a number of game puzzles; one of the drawings in the diary is an illustration of the tunnel floor, with an X mark clearly indicating where to stand to avoid being decapitated. This is meant to be a parallel to the movie; just as Indy uses his father's diary to solve puzzles throughout the movie, the player is meant to use the diary booklet to assist in their own puzzle-solving. That doubled as a brutal piece of CopyProtection, if you gave up too quickly.

* SaveScumming:
** You can die in an (early) LucasArts game! The encounters and fights at Castle Brunwald and onboard the Zeppelin encourage the trope.
** [[SaveGameLimits Savegames are disabled]] for the final trials. A sign before entering the grail temple reads [[PaintingTheMedium "If you thinkest life is but a game, be warned: beyond this point, THOU CANST NOT BE SAVED"]] .The game automatically goes back to the first trial if you fail any of those quests (and die).

** The [[http://indyguide.mixnmojo.com/graphics/artcollalt.gif art vault]] on the castle has paintings of {{Loom}}, ''Maniac Mansion'', and even past and [[CallForward future screens]] of the game. Mixed with real paintings like Mona Lisa, Grande Jatte...

* SelfDestructingSecurity: The Holy Grail is protected by many layers of secrets, guards and traps. The final resort, however, is that the Grail can never pass beyond "The Great Seal". Doing so results in the place self destructing and the Grail being LostForever if you fail to retrieve it.

* UnwinnableByDesign: Indiana Jones is an adventure game written just before the "no-die" and "no-fatal-mistake" Ron Gilbert's policy. Rare but possible:

** The beer keg needed to drug and beat Biff can be drained if Indy leaves the spigot open.

* ThoseWackyNazis: The villains of the game.

* CircularReasoning: Indiana pulls it with varying degrees of success when the guards asks about his authorization, he points out he wouldn't be there if he didn't have authorization.

* {{Feelies}} : The game came packaged with a hard-paper Grail Diary. The very detailed 34-page booklet contains Henry's field research about the Grail and doubles as a subtle CopyProtection method, as the in-game information resorts to it. The quality of the book made it look like a collector’s item and some editors didn't realize the booklet was not a cosmetic addition so it was not included in any form in some versions. [[http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/07/grail-diary/ Wired]] wrote an article praising the quality of this feelie. The Steam version fortunately has it in a PDF file.

* CircularReasoning: Indiana pulls it with varying degrees of success when the guards asks about his authorization, he ask he wouldn't be there if he didn't have authorization.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Hitler, close enough. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t69UdrkzhWc Then you broke more than your arm]].

* {{Feelies}} : The game came packaged with a hard-paper Grail Diary. The very detailed 63-page booklet contains Henry's field research about the Grail and doubles as a subtle CopyProtection method, as the in-game information resorts to it. The quality of the book made it look like a collector’s item and some editors didn't realize the booklet is not a cosmetic addition so it was not included in any form in some versions. [[http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/07/grail-diary/ Wired]] wrote an article praising the quality of this feelie. The Steam version fortunately has it in a PDF file.

* NoSwastikas in the German version. Replaced by the Iron Cross and black squares..

Two PC versions of the game were released, one with 16 color EGA graphics, and one with 256 color VGA graphics

A new Indiana Jones adventure game was released by LucasArts in 1992, ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis''

* AllThereInTheManual: The game has metapuzzles. Guessing the correct (and randomized) Grial requires a combination of in-game information and contents / tips from the manual. The game originally came packaged with its own Grail diary but such booklet is missing in many editions. See also PixelHunt below.

* ArtifactOfDeath: Any of the False Grails.

* BreakingTheFourthWall : "Hi, I'm Indiana Jones, welcome to my game" , right at the beginning.

* CopyProtection: Marcus would ask Indy to translate some symbols for him, which would need to be looked up in the manual. Failing to do so would let the game continue as normal - until a crucial point where Indy, at Donovan's place, would fail to translate a tablet concerning the Holy Grail (Indy mistakenly translates it as "Holy Grain"), prompting Donovan to say "Seems you're just an illegitimate copy of the man I thought you were." This was removed in later versions, together with a bundled grail booklet needed for the final puzzle. See also AllThereInTheManual above.

* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: Most of the objects, with the occasional RedHerring.

* KleptomaniacHero

* MythologyGag: ''All'' the grails look like "the cup of a carpenter" when examined.
* NoSwastikas in the German version. Replaced by the Iron Cross.

** Savegames are disabled for the final trials. A sign before entering the grail temple reads "Adventurers beware, beyond this point you cannot save yourselves". The game automatically goes back to the first trial if you fail any of those quests (and die).

** Indiana's office is full of them, the Sankara stones from ''IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' and artifacts from SamAndMax, VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders, ManiacMansion and StarWars.
** The [[http://indyguide.mixnmojo.com/graphics/artcollalt.gif art vault]] on the castle has paintings of {{Loom}}, Maniac Mansion, and even past and [[CallForward future screens]] of the game. Mixed with real paintings like Mona Lisa, Grande Jatte...

* SparedByTheAdaptation: If you're very quick with your [[PixelHunt Pixel Hunting]], it's possible to pick up the Holy Grail before Elsa can grab it and then return it to the immortal knight, allowing Elsa to live. If you do this, she gets a line in the "We named the ''dog'' Indiana," discussion.
-->Elsa: "Hm... didn't my father have a secretary named Elsa?"

** The crossed references to identify the true Grail -it's random every game- can be missed in Venice and in the castle if Indiana didn't pick up the -[[LostForever inaccessible by then]]- painting at Henry's house. Not fatal per-se but it makes the deadly last puzzle a luck based pick. Aggravated in many versions that don't include the booklet with the off-game information needed to deduce the matter.

* AdolfHitler: Indy meets Der Führer, The BigBad, and can even punch him as abovementioned. RealityEnsues. [[http://hg101.kontek.net/indy/indy3-22.png Game over screen]]

* ConvenientlyPlacedSharpThing: The axe of the armour suite that releases the Joneses. It can also lead to a family undfriendly-CruelAndUnusualDeath.

* EarthquakesCauseFissures: If the grial crosses the seal. Also CollapsingLair
* FakePlatform: Titles in the third grial trial.

* {{Ghostapo}}: Nazis and the Holy Grail, inmortal Hitler... Indy's quest is the prevention of the trope.

* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: Most of the objects, with the occassional RedHerring.
* ItsAWonderfulFailure: The HaveANiceDeath screens include a brief text about Hitler and the Nazis taking over the world once Indiana Jones is not there to stop their plans. Indiana becomes a servant who cleans nazi reliques and junk for the rest of his life.

* MultipleEndings : Depending on the actions done with the Grial in the final temple. Indy can also die midgame.

** The crossed references to identify the true Grial -it's random every game- can be missed in Venice and in the castle if Indiana didn't pick up the -[[LostForever inaccesible by then]]- painting at Henry's house. Not fatal per-se but it mades the deadly last puzzle a luck based pick. Aggravated in many versions that don't include the booklet with the off-game information needed to deduce the matter.

* WickedCultured: One of the guards in the castle is an intellectual that can be bypassed if Indiana gives him a first edition of ''Literature/MeinKampf''. Is also one the [[BadassBookworm toughest fighters]]

The plot closely follows, and [[Adaptation Expansion expands upon]] , the film of the same name. As the game begins, Indiana Jones has returned to his college, after reclaiming the Cross of Coronado. He is approached by businessman Walter Donovan, who tells him about the Holy Grail, and of the disappearance of Indy's father.

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" is a standard PlatformGame . Another console game with the same name were released later, these two are [[FanonDiscontinuity mostly forgotten]] today.

* AllThereInTheManual: The game has metapuzzles. Guessing the correct (and randomized) Grial requires a combination of in-game information and contents / tips from the manual. Such booklet is missing in many editions. See also PixelHunt below.

* NPCAmnesia: Adverted both the password variant and this trope in general by making you fist-fight any guards you fail to bluff your way past. Also, if an already bluffed guard sees Indiana in an attire different than the one used for his cover story, the guard will spot the ruse and become hostile.

* RunningGag: Indiana starts the game with his clothes soaked, and answers DontAsk when the question is raised. The situation is repeated with other characters later. A nod to the movie too where Indiana is first shown in the middle of a tempest at sea and ends up in a lifesaver.

** Indiana's office is full of them, the Sankara stones from ''TempleOfDoom'' and artifacts from SamAndMax, VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders, ManiacMansion and StarWars.

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" is a standard PlatformGame . Other two console games with the same name were released later, all three [[CanonDiscontinuity mostly forgotten]] today.

This article discusses the 1989 PointAndClick graphic adventure game, developed by [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Ron Gilbert]], [[VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders David Fox]] Noah Falstein and [[SamAndMax Steve Purcell]].

The plot closely follows, and expands upon, the film of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. As the game begins, Indiana Jones has returned to his college, after reclaiming the Cross of Coronado. He is approached by businessman Walter Donovan, who tells him about the Holy Grail, and of the disappearance of Indy's father.

** In Indy's office there is a [[StarWars thousand-year-old falcon]]

* AllThereInTheManual: The game has metapuzzles. Guessing the correct Grial requires a combination of in-game information and contents / tips from the manual. See also PixelHunt below.

* ChekhovsSkill: The boxing training at the start of the game. Indiana fights several crucial fights against the nazis later.
* CopyProtection: Marcus would ask Indy to translate some symbols for him, which would need to be looked up in the manual. Failing to do so would let the game continue as normal - until a crucial point where Indy, at Donovan's place, would fail to translate a tablet concerning the Holy Grail (Indy mistakenly translates it as "Holy Grain"), prompting Donovan to say "Seems you're just an illegitimate copy of the man I thought you were." See also AllThereInTheManual above.

* ItsAWonderfulFailure: The HaveANiceDeath screens include a brief text about Hitler and the Nazis taking over the world once Indiana Jones is not there to stop their plans

* NPCAmnesia: Adverted both the password variant and this trope in general by making you fist-fight any guards you fail to bluff your way past. If an already bluffed guard sees Indiana in an attire different than the one used for his cover story, the guard will spot the ruse and become hostile.
* OffWithHisHead!: One of the Grail traps.

** The savegames are also disabled in the middle of dialogues, a recurrent issue with SCUMM-based games those days.

* UnwinnablebyDesign: Indiana Jones is an adventure game written just before the "no-die" and "no-fatal-mistake" Ron Gilbert's policy. Rare but possible.

* WhipItGood. And other related Indiana's trademark whip antics.

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" is a standard PlatformGame . Other two console games with the same name were released later, all three [[CanonDiscontinuity mostly forgotten]] today. This article discusses the 1989 adventure game.

Several key elements of the film were not included while many other are revisited and done different. In keeping with Indiana's action-man persona, the game also features pure action scenes. Unlike most Lucasfilm adventures, you can die.

* HundredPercentCompletion: The game has "Indy Quotient" as score. It's two separate scores: one for what you had gained during the current playthrough, and another one which kept track of all score-giving actions you have accomplished in the game on any play. To gain full score in the latter includes doing things which are nearly impossible or result in an instant death, such as punching Hitler in public

* AdaptationExpansion: Many locations from the 2 hours long movie are logically expanded in the adventure game. Most notably Venice's catacombs and Castle Brunwald.

* NPCAmnesia: Adverted both the password variant and this trope in general by making you fist-fight any guards you fail to bluff your way past

* SaveScumming: You can die in an (early) LucasArts game! The encounters and fights at Castle Brunwald and onboard the Zeppelin encourage the trope. Savegames are disabled for the final trials. A sign before entering the grail temple reads "Adventurers beware, beyond this point you cannot save yourselves" . The game automatically goes back to the first trial if you fail any of those quests (and die). The savegames are also disabled in the middle of dialogues, a recurrent issue with SCUMM-based games those days.

* AdolfHitler: Indy meets Der Führer, The BigBad, and can even punch him as abovementioned. RealityEnsues.

* AllThereInTheManual: Guessing the correct Grial requires a combination of in-game information and contents / tips from the manual. See also PixelHunt below.

* CensorBox: A RunningGag. It covers changes of clothes and some gory things.

* {{Ghostapo}}: Nazis and the Holy Grail, inmortal Hitler... Indy's quest is preventing the trope from happening.

* ReplayValue: MultipleEndings and non linear puzzles, there are alternative ways to bypass guards and soldiers. The Zeppelin can be skipped enterely if Indy khows how to start an airplane.

** Second ever appearance -in Henry's house- of "Chuck, the plant" from ''ManiacMansion'' . In the demo it was named ''[[MonkeyIsland LeChuck]] the plant"

Several key elements of the were not included while many other are revisited and done different. In keeping with Indiana's action-man persona, the game also features pure action scenes. Unlike most Lucasfilm adventures, you can die.

* AllThereInTheManual: Guessing the correct Grial requires a combination of in-game information and contents / tips from the manual.

* CopyProtection: Marcus would ask Indy to translate some symbols for him, which would need to be looked up in the manual. Failing to do so would let the game continue as normal - until a crucial point where Indy, at Donovan's place, would fail to translate a tablet concerning the Holy Grail (Indy mistakenly translates it as "Holy Grain"), prompting Donovan to say "Seems you're just an illegitimate copy of the man I thought you were."

* SaveScumming: Savegames are disable for the final trials. A sign before entering the grail temple reads "Adventurers beware, beyond this point you cannot save yourselves" . The game automatically goes back to the first trial if you fail any of those quests (and die).

* Actor Allusion: Well, to HarrisonFord, anyway:

** In one line of s, Indy introduces himself as "[=Robert McFalfa=]", a nod to the Bob Falfa character played by Ford in ''AmericanGraffiti''.

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" is a standard PlatformGame. This article discusses the adventure game.

* GiantMook: One in the castle, unbeatable by normal means, he has to be dozed first.

* MacGuffin: The Holy Grail. Arguably a PlotDevice since it's actually used once at the end of the game.

* ThoseWackyNazis: The villains of the game.
* MultipleEndings : Depending on the actions done with the Grial in the final temple.

* ShoutOut: To other LucasArts games, a customary tradition.

* WhipItGood

* AdolfHitler: Indy meets Der Führer, and can even punch him as abovementioned. RealityEnsues.

* SelfDestructingSecurity: The Holy Grail is protected by many layers of secrets, guards and traps. The final resort, however, is that the Grail can never pass beyond "The Great Seal". Doing so results in the place self destructing and the Grail being LostForever.

* Dialogue Tree

* StormingTheCastle: Castle Brunwald. Subtlety is better than force, since Indiana's health does not regenerates fully after a rough fight.

* DressingAndTheEnemy: An important gameplay aspect, in Castle Brunwald most guards can only be persuaded while wearing a specific type of attire.
* EarthquakesCauseFissures: If the grial crosses the seal. CollapsingLair

* AdolfHitler: Indy meets Der Fuehrer, and can even punch him. RealityEnsues

* EarthquakesCauseFissures: If the grial crosses the seal.

* ItsAWonderfulFailure: The HaveANiceDeath screen include a brief text about Hitler and the Nazis taking over the world once Indiana Jones is not there to stop their plans

* SelfDestructingSecurity: The Holy Grail is protected by many layers of secrets, guards and traps. The final resort, however, is that the Grail can never pass beyond "The Great Seal". Doing so results in the entire place self destructing and the Grail being lost forever.
* StormingTheCastle: Castle Brunwald. Subtletly is better than force, since Indiana's health often does not regenerates fully after a hard fight.

-->I'm selling this fine leather jackets

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" is a standard PlatformGame. This article, for the most part, discusses the adventure game.

The game recieved a sequel : ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis''

!!Tropes featured in this game include:

* ChekovsSkill: The boxing training at the start of the game. Indiana fights several crucial fights against the nazis later.

UnexpectedGameplayChange: The action sequence