This excellent LucasArts point-and-click adventure game was first released in 1989 (to coincide with the film of the same name) and preceded the classic Fate of Atlantis by three years.

I have to admit that this one passed me by until now, and I’m still recovering from the shock of discovering a new SCUMM adventure from the same core team who gave us Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, and Sam & Max…

I always thought that The Last Crusade was represented by that mediocre action game developed by Tiertex – I never knew there was a point-and-click adventure… But that’s probably because I was completely immersed in playing games on the Super Nintendo in 1990, and it was before I’d used a PC. Well, this is one of the joys of retro gaming… Finding old classics that you’ve never played before…

And The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure is a classic – even if the presentation is a little simple compared to other LucasArts adventure classics. The art in this is very vibrant in style, but somewhat impressionistic in places. I like it, but you can see that it isn’t quite as refined as the art in Fate of Atlantis.

Game play-wise: there’s little to complain about. The puzzles are just as hard as every other LucasArts adventure game ever made, and the solutions just as obscure. If you’re struggling to make headway, try a walkthrough.

I really enjoyed playing Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure for the first time recently, some thirty years after its initial release. So much so that I recommend it to all point-and-click adventure enthusiasts. It’s still available to buy now and runs nicely in SCUMM VM or DOSBox.

More: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on Wikipedia
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