When I was that age as well. I thought the graphics looked good. Not no more and I'm blind in 1eye. Its not too bad. But I have see better from other games of that era.

I was 8 years old in 1985. 👍

I was also born in ‘78. There’s was nothing compared to walking into an arcade back then. The cacophony of all the sound effects coming from each game is like being an adult walking into a casino.

I was thinking more like drunk Homer Simpson.

I can’t unhear that now

I always thought it was "blah blah blah through the vault."

I always thought is said Ex Lax kid will rule the world

I’m pretty sure that’s a sampled speech from the movie, but I could be wrong.

@@theusher2893 It's sampled from before they reach Pangkot palace, when their Indian guides take off with the elephants.

@@jaredemery6338 Amazingly enough, it's speech synth. The System 1 boards didn't have any kind of sample playback capability. It's incredibly close to how Harrison Ford's voice said the line, though. The sound's too synthetic sounding to even be ultra-low bitrate sampling...

LOL, I'm actually here because I'm reverse-engineering the speech chip this machine, and the Star Wars and Gauntlet machines, used. It's "Quasi-Sampling" in that the original sound sample is encoded in LPC-10 protocol, which is somewhere between a factor of 10x and 100x smaller than an actual sound sample of the same material. (The small size of LPC10-compressed "samples" was why this was a preferred method in the 80's, then got replaced by lo-fi samples by the mid-90s. Cell phone voice compression, for example, still uses a descendant of the LPC scheme. Ever notice the "reverby" sound on a cell phone voice when the line is cutting out? That's an artifact of the way this compression method "guesses" when there are gaps in data.) The "voice" is then recreated by a chain of (10x) sound filters in series, using the LPC stream as an "exciter". That's why I started researching this in the first place -- I couldn't figure out how the sounds were so much like "samples", but without being samples.

@@StevenJamesBurks It's a process that sits basically in-between sampling and synthesis. A typical LPC-10 "player" had a bank of exciters and a sibilance generator that were set at frequency points that are used by the human voice. An LPC-10 "file" had a set of instructions to control each of those exciters. (A WAV sample is very similar, except that there are exciters for every single frequency, whereas the LPC-10 file only had ten or so for a few select bands -- BUT even that LPC-10 file was encoded directly from an original sound recording of, say, Mola Ram or Darth Vader. ) In effect, you got a system which provided the character of a vocal sample, at a fraction of the filesize of a true sound sample. This probably only ever made financial sense for the brief time that consumer-grade microprocessors were a thing, but storage was still prohibitively expensive.

CarozQH It was horrible to the point of laughable. I know that video game technology was still fairly new at the time, but come on. They could have tried harder. No wonder Atari eventually went bankrupt.

As a kid, I would whip the guards over and over again and laugh until it hurt. “Duyyyy duyyy!”

BRBTheFireball: The Atari arcade division never went bankrupt. This was the limitation of the TI TMS5220 speech synth, that was considered good for the day. How good was your speech synth in 1984?

Gauntlet was another, but the best synth voice was the screaming in Crossbow.

@@Duke_Togo_G13 that wasn't a synth. It was a sample player

digiprez77 Mine too!!

Mine three

Me three - although I sucked at itm lol.

They all did brother. This, Sunset Riders, Final Fight, and many more.

Fuck yeah, paperboy and 720! I actually didn’t know they made this but could tell instantly from the bell sound at the beginning, a paperboy staple.

Name some other notable arcade games with the same chip and I'd like to hear them

@@shipped_my_pants_3000 OutRun (Or just Yu Susuki games up to Turbo OutRun), both TMNT games, Double Dragon 1-3, Capcom's CPS1 system as a whole, R-Type, Mortal Kombat, Captain America and the Avengers, and a whole lot more

...who?

RIP Johnny - may you be with God.

WHEWWWHWWHEHE! NAH NAH! WELCOME! WOOOOOAA! MHNMMH! OH! *Other unintelligible speech*

Atari used the same syth.

Wizard needs food badly!

William Archibald same here dude

Right? I saw this after playing the NES game back in the day and thought it looked fantastic!

Nes game was awful but this one was great.

@@bradley8575 I'll just say Nintendo tried,look at it this way. The NES game was better than Atari Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Oddly enough it kind of scared me too, but the graphics fascinated me to no end!

I agree

Yes.. I played this fantastic game every day after school but after big bridge passing is level endless... Just bonus score... level... Every day I want this finishing but it is impossible... Score over 1000000 and endless searching.. Near, up, down for gold...

@@Grolmusl That was the good thing about the NES version - there was actually an ending. And at that end, you could build up a stack of points by catching the girl's kisses with your swords, knives and even grenades. For even more extra points (10,000, to be exact), you can whip her as soon as the counter gets down to zero (or you run out of weapons, whichever comes first), and then you get still more points for whatever weapons you have left and lives. I seem to recall that one time, I got two million points (getting one million is actually pretty easy). Indeed, the arcade game could be frustrating!

@@Grolmusl That bonus round sets the mens from the boys. The trick is not die after getting a idol statue. Meaning each consecutive statue you obtain without perishing yields more points - think it goes up to 40k each idol. My high score is around 2.8 million.

Me too dude! I'd never seen the bridge level played before. Man this game is epic!

i got to that stage back in the 80s.. in the arcade i remember two guys were watching me play.. i could tell theyd never seen anyone get that far before..

Oh shit…

Lol yeah...I do too. 1985 was a way different time.

Mola Ram: "Welcome." "Soon, Kali Ma will rule the world." "I'll be back." "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" (Cinema Sins: "No." [ding!]) Indy: "No." "Yeah." "We walk from here." Thuggees: Mostly non-sensical gibberish. Prince of Pankot: "I control you now." Willie Scott: "Oh, Indy." Short Round: "Knock it off."

?

If I recall correctly, the Challenge Round is infinitely looped, there's no actual ending besides when you defeat Mola Ram.

I thought it was the Maharajah carrying a voodoo doll