Wednesday 30 September 2015

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - The Action game

I decided to play through Indiana Jones and the Last crusade on Commodore 64. I own two copies, both on cassette. One in big jewel case and one in a collection box with Robocop, Ghostbusters II and Batman, called Hollywood Collection. Both I've had in my collection since I was a kid.
I played this a lot as a kid. Never beat it, so this was my mission as I started it.


The game has 5 stages. The first stage you are in a cave trying to find The Cross of Coronado and is one together with stage 3 the hardest stages.
Second stage you run atop of a train and this is by far the easiest level.
Third stage you are in the Catacombs in Venice also the stage ends with you going up the wall of Castle Brunwald.
Fourth stage you are on board a Zeppelin and needs to find Indy's dads diary and escape the Zeppelin.
Fifth and last stage you have to get to the Holy Grail before the time runs out, to save Indy's father, and try to avoid all the traps.
Each of the stages needs to be loaded after completing the previous stage.
Indy has 5 lives but you are given unlimited continues up until the last stage. If you die and get game over you need to load the game again.


It follows the movie pretty OK. Although you are adult Indy for the first two stages where in the movie it was young Indy that was in the cave and on the train.

I must say I really like the graphics. Very good for C64, I think. The thing that bothers me most is the controls. It's very easy to miss a simple jump sometimes.

I had to play both of my copies. First one I played, in the jewel case, had a bug when I tried to take the Grail in the end. Nothing happened.
The one in the Hollywood Collection was a bit different. First you load the title screen and get a message to reset the counter, probably so you can load first stage faster if you need to restart, then load the first stage.
Also in this copy I experienced a bug. Second stage was totally messed up, but the later stages was good and it was possible to grab the Grail in the end.

I'm also missing the copy protection for the jewel case version, so need to find that some how, but I have it in the Hollywood Collection.

After beating this I decided to try out the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version, which I never had played before.



The settings of the levels are the same, but level design is different, except that level 3 is just the catacombs and level 4 is Castle Brunwald and there is no Zeppelin level.
Also every level, except the 5th have a boss fight.
This games is also much harder, and you only get 2 continues.
But after some frustrating hours I finally was able beat it.

I liked both versions. Even though I hated the Mega Drive version while playing it. But after beating it I sort of liked it. It gave a challenge.

Down here you can see videos of me beating both versions.

Commodore 64


Sega Mega Drive


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