Every Indiana Jones Video Game Ranked Worst To Best

16. Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Indiana Jones is all about exploring ancient environments, sprawling landscapes and dusty tombs, but back in the days of Atari's growing home console business, it just wasn't possible to recreate that kind of atmosphere realistically. Or at all, really.

Raiders of the Lost Ark launched on Atari's 2600 console in 1982, roughly a year after the original movie's run and stuck loosely to the same story beats of finding the Ark of the Covenant, discovering the Ark's whereabouts in the hidden map room and so on.

To say it's weird is an understatement, with the system's limitations turning iconic locations into brightly coloured, pixelated rooms with puzzles as complex as 'find hidden block'. It doesn't hold up anywhere near as well as the classic Adventure, which had you controlling a tiny pixel yet served up a more interesting experience by comparison to the blocky and brown blob that represented our famed hero here.

Visuals aside, the concept of the game had you using two joysticks at the same time, one to control Indy and the other to switch through his inventory. It was a novel idea, largely used in space shooters like Robotron at the time, but here it felt just a little out of place.