We take a look into the only two good Indiana Jones games as we anticipate LEGO: Indiana Jones.

So a few weeks ago, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was released, did you use it? If so, wasn’t it great? If not, what are you waiting for? Sure the plot felt and resembled that Phantom movie Billy Zane and Catherine Zeta-Jones did, but despite what all of the critics said, I enjoyed the movie as I think anyone who likes Indiana Jones’ movies will, so long as they aren’t expecting the second coming of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

But I know this isn’t the place to talk about, much less delve into a review of a movie so I will digress from it here. Indiana Jones is more than an action hero with a great hat and bull whip; he is a figure of pop culture. His adventure span more than movies, childhood dreams, and books, they also span numerous video games.

Unfortunately, the video games were mostly garbage with the exception of two, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, both of which were made using the Lucas Arts point-and-click adventure game engine extraordinaire, SCUMM. So those two are all we are going to be talking about, sorry other games! You just aren’t worth digging up and subjecting myself to.

The real reason behind this article really has nothing to do with the new movie at all, instead it’s more of a hope that the upcoming LEGO: Indiana Jones will not suffer the same problems the past games did and actually be worth playing through. After all, LEGO: Star Wars felt like a good representation of what games using the SCUMM engine had only adapted into an action game, so why not Indiana Jones, right?

You would think a movie that basically had all the elements to a make a good game wouldIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for the irritating mine cart levels, we can blame Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for multi-part ending puzzles and horribly challenging tank bosses right before the last level, and finally we can blame Raiders of the Lost Ark for the sneaking into Nazi submarine bay levels. You can thank Indiana Jones for actually make a game, but alas that is not the case. We can blame Tomb Raider, Pitfall, and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. So let’s dive into this shall we, the first good Indiana Jones game was...