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While reports have stated that the game was financially successful for Atari, leading to Spielberg asking Warshaw to adapt his next film project, E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark was described by Bruce Chadwick as selling below Atari's expectations at less than a million copies sold by February 1983. [7] [4]
Playtesting by Atari found that the game was popular with women. [2] The game was a major success and is still regarded as one of the best games made for the Atari 2600. This led Warshaw to be chosen to design the game adaptation of the film Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was also a critically acclaimed commercial success. [3]
Raiders of the Lost Ark has been represented across a wide variety of merchandise, including comic books, [133] video games, [134] novels, [15] Lego sets, [135] [136] action figures and vehicles, playsets, [137] candles, [138] and board games. [139] It has received several game adaptations. Raiders of the Lost Ark was released in 1982 for the ...
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982, Atari Inc) – The first Indiana Jones video game. Released on the Atari 2600. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1985, Atari Games) – Arcade game, later converted to many home computer and console formats, including an NES version in 1988.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962). David Lean’s First World War epic about TE Lawrence remains a filmmaking milestone, the movie that Steven Spielberg rewatches before starting each new film.
Computer and Video Games, reviewing the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST versions, called the game "quite an accurate and splendid conversion", particularly the Atari ST version. The magazine praised the game's playability, but criticized its difficulty and sound effects.
The film is a reboot, showing Lara's first adventure and is based on the 2013 video game with Lara searching for her father. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] [ 60 ] Alicia Vikander was cast as Lara Croft in the reboot. [ 61 ] [ 62 ] Walton Goggins was cast as the film's villain; he called the plot " Raiders of the Lost Ark meets a genre version of the Joseph ...