While you can manually choose the path in the game, the path in your fortune isn't random. It's based on how you solved the puzzles before that point. The biggest factor in that is how you get past the bouncer at the theatre.
true. that puzzle how to get past Biff is the only factor afaik, as the other puzzles until the fortune telling are not multiple choice. it doesnt matter though, when Sophia tells you that the path of punching people in the face would be best suited to you (because you overcame Biff with violence), and you say "yeah I like action", she will not ask again whether you are sure or not, but will ask that if you choose the wits or team path instead. and same for the other options, but it doesnt matter. I remember when I played this with my father, we knocked Biff out, but chose the team path. it is still my favourite path through the game, but all 3 are worthwhile. the action path is a bit lacking though, because the fighting isnt very entertaining to me. it is totally worth for the death screens though. do yourself a favour and lose a fist fight to any of the nazis in the labyrinth of knossos, some are actually hilarious.
That part where you had to use the surveying equipment had me stumped for like 10 years, at least. I tried EVERYTHING. And there was no internet to help you figure things out.
This game is a gem. It's runaway success says it all. Written by a Hollywood writer, had unique and great story and visuals, huge replayability (not only the three paths but some of the puzzles also change) and the talkie version makes you feel like you are actually part of the story. Choosing fists for first playthrough is indeed a bad choice, the team path is by far the best fleshed out and most popular. By the way, I played it on ScummVM ported to Symbian OS (the OS for old Nokia smartphones, before Windows). Let me rephrase that, I played a freakin DOS adventure game on a 15 years old smartphone. I was also the first one to upload a playthrough of the game on youtube. It was back at the time when videos were not allowed to be longer than 10 minutes and certain resolution so I had to painstainkingly cut the whole thing into meaningful parts and create a playlist. Later as TH-cam allowed longer videos and better resolutions other people posted full length playthroughs with better quality but I'll still cherish all the response my playthrough got back at the time. This game is rightfully considered as the only fourth Indy story among the fans. Although it still has Nazis (as opposed to Crystal skull which has Commies) the story is way better and the added interactive element is a huge part of that. And I still think the game holds up today if you can get past the dated graphics and sound (I'm so used to seeing VGA graphics that my mind can "upscale" it automatically).
This game actually did get a sequel, titled Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. It's quite the fun game even if it copies the older Tomb Raider games from the 90's quite a bit.
I start playing this in 1996, my dad brought a few floppy disks home and I loved playing it. How did I solve the puzzles pre-internet? It took me 2 years 😂
@@thunderthormx I remember as a 12 year old being stuck on Grim Fandango for a week, and being so desperate I walked 15 minutes to my nearest phone box to phone the lucasarts hotline, because no way in hell my parents would let me use the housephone. Turns out the hotline was so expensive I used up all my money before I even got the chance to talk to someone lol
The desktop adventures was the Indy verson of the same for Star Wars. It was just intended on being a super short replayable game. The Star Wars one was called Yoda Stories
Must of the puzzles are written in the lost dialogue of Plato or other books or text that indi get throught the game. others you will find a hint somewhere in the enviroment. I played before the internet era and this was the fun of the game that you will expend time looking to solve complex puzzles and riddlers.
I believe the text at the end of the credits was meant to create hype for the Young Indy tv series that aired around the same time. But I agree; I wished we had gotten another IJ graphic adventure like this one and maybe even in the style of Full Throttle and CMI. At least We got two great 3D IJ games after it, and FoA is already 3 games in 1, so I guess we can't really complain.
hmm for the more obscure seeming puzzles, there is always an enviromental clue. like on crete there is a diagram in one of the ruins showing exactly how to find the moon stone. back in the day, in atlantis I didnt find the manual for the statue that must open the door and it took me like 3 trips for more orichalcum, cause I solved it via trial and error. but trial and error is never needed, if only you explore carefully and heed attention to the environment.
Great review! After watching for a few minutes I scrolled down and was surprised to see that you only have 8.5K subscribers despites how good quality this review was. Thinking about it now, it was actually a review by an Australian guy that convinced me to get Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb about a decade ago. I assume you're Australian, you don't sound enough like Jango Fett to be a Kiwi.
I love this game. I also got it in box, floppy version only, though. Not quite Monkey Island, but then again, what is? I had a lot of fun with this game when I was a kid.
I played this game in the nineties and a second time just now. I literally forgot all the puzzles and scenes, so it felt like I'm playing it for the first time. I was amazing. 🙂👏
Fate of Atlantis is probably one, if not the first PC games I've ever played. I did had a SNES before i owned a PC, so it wasn't my game. I remember i couldn't get the dialogue to work though. It would always become unplayable after the first line in the attic, and i was always trying to find the right combination of Sound Driver, Audio port and IRQ or whatever it was. But eventually I just went with the text only option. Looking back, it's actually amazing i even finished the game. My English was still underdeveloped. Some of the puzzles were quite hard. And I think i pretty much brute forced every 3-stone dial puzzle in the game until it solved something.
i think this game take place in Morocco, because Atlantis is most likely Morocco, The old Andalusia in South Spain to Moulay Idriss region in Fez and Meknes of Morocco, Its a country in the atlantic sea and the country of the atlas mountains
I've been thinking about this game when the new movie was released, because in my mind, this is still the perfect Indiana Jones sequel after the three old movies. Anyways, I also started playing it in ScummVM and you just mentioned that you also used it to play the talkie version of the game. And since I just started playing it too, I noticed in the intro scene, when Indy is at the bookshelf and then gets crushed by it, there is this short lag of gameplay when the crash sound is loading. And I did notice that same lag from my playthrough in your video at 4:30. That's peculiar! Then it isn't just my machine, it happened on yours too! It's been a while since I ran that game in DOS, but I seem to remember that this particular animation was more fluid back then, but I could be mistaken...
Staff of Kings was also on the PSp and DS with each game having different gameplay and a different path to the goal, I have the PSP version and thought it wasn't bad. My favorite Indy game is Emperor's Tomb though. Have you ever tried it? If not its on GOG for the same price as Fate of Atlantis. So is Infernal Machine but I don't remember it though I know I played it.
Awesome to see this video! I know you were excited to be able to record DOS games from that earlier video, but man, I'm also 100% not surprised that the whole thing gave you some headaches anyway, lol. It's such a pain. That's actually one of the reasons I go to GOG less these days; those DOS games put up too much of a fight, frankly. Or even later games; I think the last retro game I got from them was Return to Castle Wolfenstein and that did not play nicely with my dual monitor setup at all. The Mouse Cursor would pretend it was locked to the right screen where the game was, but then randomly during gameplay, programs would start or the Start Menu would get clicked and I quickly realized that, nah, there's an invisible mouse moving on the desktop because it can't handle locking it to the game :P There's ALWAYS some problem with old PC games, eh? Oh well, at least you got an Indy review out and it looks and sounds great! Thank you, "original hardware," haha. (^-^) Also, 6:50 got me thinking about other adventure games that might have some Indy-style fisticuffs. I believe Nightshade on the NES combines point-and-click inventory puzzle adventure gameplay with beat 'em up gameplay. Ooh, and I recall backing something on Kickstarter that is doing it called... _*looks it up..._ Brok the Investigator! Trailer for that: th-cam.com/video/0rRPnG8YSjE/w-d-xo.html . Might wanna keep an eye out for those, because you're right, it's very unusual to see an adventure game genre mashup like that, and ya never know when it might be something special, eh?
Sounds like I got lucky with GOG then! This was played with two monitors, usually with OBS and file explorer on the secondary (and the hint guide too, I suppose). No issues this time around, fortunately.
Planned sequels After the release of the game, a story for a supposed successor in the adventure genre was conceived by Joe Pinney, Hal Barwood, Bill Stoneham, and Aric Wilmunder. Titled Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix, it was set after World War II and featured Nazis seeking refuge in Bolivia, trying to resurrect Adolf Hitler with the philosopher's stone. The game was in development for 15 months before it was showcased at the European Computer Trade Show. However, when the German coordinators discovered how extensively the game dealt with Neo-Nazism, they informed LucasArts about the difficulty of marketing the game in their country. As Germany was an important overseas market for adventure games, LucasArts feared that the lower revenues would not recoup development costs, and subsequently canceled the game. The plot was later adapted into a four-part Dark Horse Comics series by Lee Marrs, published monthly from December 1994 to March 1995. In an interview, Barwood commented that the development team should have thought about the story more thoroughly beforehand, calling it insensitive and not regretting the cancellation of the title. Another follow-up game called Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny was planned, which revolved around the Spear of Longinus. Development was outsourced to a small studio, but eventually stopped as LucasArts did not have experience with the supervision of external teams. Elaine Lee loosely reworked the story into another four-part comic book series, released from April to July 1995.
If you try to leave the library instead of checking the bookcase with books on statues, Indy will say he can't cause the stairs are closed for repairs.
Buying it on GOG when you own the CD ROM is just playing it on SCUMMVM with extra steps… You could have just copied the files into SCUMMVM and saved yourself the extra purchase.
I think it's crazy that we Germans more or less "controlled" what Point&Click adventures were made, just because we had the most players. Even so that american producers respected that. What the hell :D
My only has 2 complaints was this great game 1)the guy they got to voice indy sounded nothing like Harrison Ford. 2)I thought the intro was rubbish the way Indy fell around all over the place l know Indiana Jones had occasional slapstick moments but couldn't we start with a puzzle on a crashing plane or something.
My problem with the first movie is this...what if Indiana Jones never got involved in the story? The Germans would never find it, or even if they did they would still eventually have the same exact ending. Basically his involvement brought just more death and suffering to others, for zero effect. Just saying. About the game, well, this game is awesome. One of the best adventure games of all time according to most who tried it. There are two more point and click adventure games which allowed you to use violence in action sequences. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Blade Runner. 11:10 I assume you haven't played any Sierra adventure game then? Death is the norm there. :p Desktop adventures was quite popular. There were more of them. Star Wars and...hmm, perhaps the two of them. I can't remember now. Thanks for the good video man.
Great memories. Talk to > singing nazi Arnold - Schwarzenegger reference Indy pilfers the dead ☠️… hmm “he doesn’t have anything worth taking” “This X is… to the west… and… to the south….” Bad memories. Stuck for hours in Knossos labyrinth
While you can manually choose the path in the game, the path in your fortune isn't random. It's based on how you solved the puzzles before that point. The biggest factor in that is how you get past the bouncer at the theatre.
true. that puzzle how to get past Biff is the only factor afaik, as the other puzzles until the fortune telling are not multiple choice.
it doesnt matter though, when Sophia tells you that the path of punching people in the face would be best suited to you (because you overcame Biff with violence), and you say "yeah I like action", she will not ask again whether you are sure or not, but will ask that if you choose the wits or team path instead.
and same for the other options, but it doesnt matter.
I remember when I played this with my father, we knocked Biff out, but chose the team path. it is still my favourite path through the game, but all 3 are worthwhile.
the action path is a bit lacking though, because the fighting isnt very entertaining to me.
it is totally worth for the death screens though.
do yourself a favour and lose a fist fight to any of the nazis in the labyrinth of knossos, some are actually hilarious.
Let me in you Darwinian nightmare!
That part where you had to use the surveying equipment had me stumped for like 10 years, at least. I tried EVERYTHING. And there was no internet to help you figure things out.
This game is a gem. It's runaway success says it all. Written by a Hollywood writer, had unique and great story and visuals, huge replayability (not only the three paths but some of the puzzles also change) and the talkie version makes you feel like you are actually part of the story.
Choosing fists for first playthrough is indeed a bad choice, the team path is by far the best fleshed out and most popular.
By the way, I played it on ScummVM ported to Symbian OS (the OS for old Nokia smartphones, before Windows). Let me rephrase that, I played a freakin DOS adventure game on a 15 years old smartphone.
I was also the first one to upload a playthrough of the game on youtube. It was back at the time when videos were not allowed to be longer than 10 minutes and certain resolution so I had to painstainkingly cut the whole thing into meaningful parts and create a playlist. Later as TH-cam allowed longer videos and better resolutions other people posted full length playthroughs with better quality but I'll still cherish all the response my playthrough got back at the time.
This game is rightfully considered as the only fourth Indy story among the fans. Although it still has Nazis (as opposed to Crystal skull which has Commies) the story is way better and the added interactive element is a huge part of that. And I still think the game holds up today if you can get past the dated graphics and sound (I'm so used to seeing VGA graphics that my mind can "upscale" it automatically).
This game actually did get a sequel, titled Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. It's quite the fun game even if it copies the older Tomb Raider games from the 90's quite a bit.
I remember that one. It was fun but not on the same level as this one
@@thunderthormx did you hsve it on PC it was rlsed onnth n64 and I thin was supposed to get playstation but it got scrapped
@@zacharyjochumsen9677 yeah I had it on PC
I start playing this in 1996, my dad brought a few floppy disks home and I loved playing it. How did I solve the puzzles pre-internet? It took me 2 years 😂
Gotta miss those days where you'd be stuck on one part for days until you figure it out on your own. It was so rewarding.
@@thunderthormx I remember as a 12 year old being stuck on Grim Fandango for a week, and being so desperate I walked 15 minutes to my nearest phone box to phone the lucasarts hotline, because no way in hell my parents would let me use the housephone. Turns out the hotline was so expensive I used up all my money before I even got the chance to talk to someone lol
Haha I had the same experience as a kid that year on PC. It was a mental exercise as a kid figuring everything out on your own !
Crossing the gap in the jungle was my first big hurdle.
I wish we had more Indiana Jones games
The desktop adventures was the Indy verson of the same for Star Wars. It was just intended on being a super short replayable game. The Star Wars one was called Yoda Stories
I played this with my dad on MS-DOS. He is not around anymore and I appreciate the fact that we did it together and had fun.
30 years later, I am still waiting for the film. And what did I get instead? The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Crystal Skull slander 👎👎👎
FoA is a pure gem. Besides the various paths, you can get a few different endings! Truly the real sequel to the original movies!
Must of the puzzles are written in the lost dialogue of Plato or other books or text that indi get throught the game. others you will find a hint somewhere in the enviroment. I played before the internet era and this was the fun of the game that you will expend time looking to solve complex puzzles and riddlers.
Hope they re release this game again in consoles
I believe the text at the end of the credits was meant to create hype for the Young Indy tv series that aired around the same time. But I agree; I wished we had gotten another IJ graphic adventure like this one and maybe even in the style of Full Throttle and CMI. At least We got two great 3D IJ games after it, and FoA is already 3 games in 1, so I guess we can't really complain.
I'm running the original Fate of Atlantis using DosBox on my Windows 10 PC. I copied the files from the CD Rom. Runs great!
This was a cracking game back in the day.
Easily in the Top 5 of best Point-and-Click Adventure Games of all time
Best point and click ever made
I was still seeing this for sale in stores as late as 2006. That's pretty amazing for a game released in 1992!
hmm for the more obscure seeming puzzles, there is always an enviromental clue.
like on crete there is a diagram in one of the ruins showing exactly how to find the moon stone.
back in the day, in atlantis I didnt find the manual for the statue that must open the door and it took me like 3 trips for more orichalcum, cause I solved it via trial and error.
but trial and error is never needed, if only you explore carefully and heed attention to the environment.
This MUST be played with the voice audio. (Fate of Atlantis)
Great review! After watching for a few minutes I scrolled down and was surprised to see that you only have 8.5K subscribers despites how good quality this review was. Thinking about it now, it was actually a review by an Australian guy that convinced me to get Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb about a decade ago. I assume you're Australian, you don't sound enough like Jango Fett to be a Kiwi.
I love this game. I also got it in box, floppy version only, though. Not quite Monkey Island, but then again, what is? I had a lot of fun with this game when I was a kid.
Found your channel tonight from your Jurassic Park genesis review (loved it) saw this review I really hope to try this one day.
I played this game in the nineties and a second time just now. I literally forgot all the puzzles and scenes, so it felt like I'm playing it for the first time. I was amazing. 🙂👏
Best point and click game! Hands down!
Fate of Atlantis is probably one, if not the first PC games I've ever played. I did had a SNES before i owned a PC, so it wasn't my game. I remember i couldn't get the dialogue to work though. It would always become unplayable after the first line in the attic, and i was always trying to find the right combination of Sound Driver, Audio port and IRQ or whatever it was. But eventually I just went with the text only option.
Looking back, it's actually amazing i even finished the game. My English was still underdeveloped. Some of the puzzles were quite hard. And I think i pretty much brute forced every 3-stone dial puzzle in the game until it solved something.
i think this game take place in Morocco, because Atlantis is most likely Morocco, The old Andalusia in South Spain to Moulay Idriss region in Fez and Meknes of Morocco, Its a country in the atlantic sea and the country of the atlas mountains
Have you heard of PCem? You can run those old-school LucasArts games with it on Windows 98 and have them be basically 1:1 to the original experience.
I hadn't, but I'll keep it in mind for next time. Cheers
Your version must be from post 1997 or even 1998 given that the Lucasarts catalogue has a page for OuTLaWs in it!
should i get this or the infernal machine on steam? does the steam version have working voice acting?
Too bad there is no movie out of this!
Dolph Lundgren would make a great Klaus Kerner!
Who doesn't miss Dos gaming? The sound issue was likely due to the game looking for the wrong IRQ or DMA in the setup. lol
I've been thinking about this game when the new movie was released, because in my mind, this is still the perfect Indiana Jones sequel after the three old movies.
Anyways, I also started playing it in ScummVM and you just mentioned that you also used it to play the talkie version of the game. And since I just started playing it too, I noticed in the intro scene, when Indy is at the bookshelf and then gets crushed by it, there is this short lag of gameplay when the crash sound is loading. And I did notice that same lag from my playthrough in your video at 4:30. That's peculiar! Then it isn't just my machine, it happened on yours too! It's been a while since I ran that game in DOS, but I seem to remember that this particular animation was more fluid back then, but I could be mistaken...
Staff of Kings was also on the PSp and DS with each game having different gameplay and a different path to the goal, I have the PSP version and thought it wasn't bad. My favorite Indy game is Emperor's Tomb though. Have you ever tried it? If not its on GOG for the same price as Fate of Atlantis. So is Infernal Machine but I don't remember it though I know I played it.
Could've added the assets from the CD to ScummVM and saved those two dollars on GOG. :P
Haha yeah guess I could have. At least I got a pdf hint guide... Lol
So my dad and I had to call the LucasArts cheat hotline to find out how to find out the title of the manuscript for Sternhart.
Nice title to look back on
Weren’t there two or three endings to this game based on how you played?
This can be purchased on stream to be played OFFLINE?
Awesome to see this video! I know you were excited to be able to record DOS games from that earlier video, but man, I'm also 100% not surprised that the whole thing gave you some headaches anyway, lol. It's such a pain. That's actually one of the reasons I go to GOG less these days; those DOS games put up too much of a fight, frankly. Or even later games; I think the last retro game I got from them was Return to Castle Wolfenstein and that did not play nicely with my dual monitor setup at all. The Mouse Cursor would pretend it was locked to the right screen where the game was, but then randomly during gameplay, programs would start or the Start Menu would get clicked and I quickly realized that, nah, there's an invisible mouse moving on the desktop because it can't handle locking it to the game :P There's ALWAYS some problem with old PC games, eh? Oh well, at least you got an Indy review out and it looks and sounds great! Thank you, "original hardware," haha. (^-^)
Also, 6:50 got me thinking about other adventure games that might have some Indy-style fisticuffs. I believe Nightshade on the NES combines point-and-click inventory puzzle adventure gameplay with beat 'em up gameplay. Ooh, and I recall backing something on Kickstarter that is doing it called... _*looks it up..._ Brok the Investigator! Trailer for that: th-cam.com/video/0rRPnG8YSjE/w-d-xo.html . Might wanna keep an eye out for those, because you're right, it's very unusual to see an adventure game genre mashup like that, and ya never know when it might be something special, eh?
Sounds like I got lucky with GOG then! This was played with two monitors, usually with OBS and file explorer on the secondary (and the hint guide too, I suppose). No issues this time around, fortunately.
Planned sequels
After the release of the game, a story for a supposed successor in the adventure genre was conceived by Joe Pinney, Hal Barwood, Bill Stoneham, and Aric Wilmunder. Titled Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix, it was set after World War II and featured Nazis seeking refuge in Bolivia, trying to resurrect Adolf Hitler with the philosopher's stone. The game was in development for 15 months before it was showcased at the European Computer Trade Show.
However, when the German coordinators discovered how extensively the game dealt with Neo-Nazism, they informed LucasArts about the difficulty of marketing the game in their country. As Germany was an important overseas market for adventure games, LucasArts feared that the lower revenues would not recoup development costs, and subsequently canceled the game. The plot was later adapted into a four-part Dark Horse Comics series by Lee Marrs, published monthly from December 1994 to March 1995. In an interview, Barwood commented that the development team should have thought about the story more thoroughly beforehand, calling it insensitive and not regretting the cancellation of the title.
Another follow-up game called Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny was planned, which revolved around the Spear of Longinus. Development was outsourced to a small studio, but eventually stopped as LucasArts did not have experience with the supervision of external teams. Elaine Lee loosely reworked the story into another four-part comic book series, released from April to July 1995.
Yeah, scummVM is the go-to for playing LucasArts games.
That is one mint copy of the game you have there! Congratulations 😍
Temple of Doom is a masterpiece as well
Great game and great video, thanks!
Cheers mate!
Floppy shows up - Zoomers immediately panic
Why does Indy have to break into Barnett College?
If you try to leave the library instead of checking the bookcase with books on statues, Indy will say he can't cause the stairs are closed for repairs.
Buying it on GOG when you own the CD ROM is just playing it on SCUMMVM with extra steps… You could have just copied the files into SCUMMVM and saved yourself the extra purchase.
Yeah, someone below mentioned that. Live and learn, I guess.
I think it's crazy that we Germans more or less "controlled" what Point&Click adventures were made, just because we had the most players. Even so that american producers respected that. What the hell :D
you forgot to mention existing remakes of this game... 😢
How in Hell did you find it for $5
My only has 2 complaints was this great game
1)the guy they got to voice indy sounded nothing like Harrison Ford.
2)I thought the intro was rubbish the way Indy fell around all over the place l know Indiana Jones had occasional slapstick moments but couldn't we start with a puzzle on a crashing plane or something.
My problem with the first movie is this...what if Indiana Jones never got involved in the story?
The Germans would never find it, or even if they did they would still eventually have the same exact ending.
Basically his involvement brought just more death and suffering to others, for zero effect.
Just saying.
About the game, well, this game is awesome. One of the best adventure games of all time according to most who tried it.
There are two more point and click adventure games which allowed you to use violence in action sequences.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Blade Runner.
11:10 I assume you haven't played any Sierra adventure game then? Death is the norm there. :p
Desktop adventures was quite popular. There were more of them. Star Wars and...hmm, perhaps the two of them. I can't remember now.
Thanks for the good video man.
Death in a given in seirra games.
If indie didn't get envolved Marion would be dead.
@@Isolder74 Why?
@@Trusteft She had the amulet. They already knew about that.
There's a lot of movies like that. "Bad guys are trying to find or steal X to use it for evil. We need to find it first for (reasons unknown)".
Great memories.
Talk to > singing nazi
Arnold - Schwarzenegger reference
Indy pilfers the dead ☠️… hmm “he doesn’t have anything worth taking”
“This X is… to the west… and… to the south….”
Bad memories. Stuck for hours in Knossos labyrinth
Were you even alive in 1992? dafuq is this?
Yes