Smith pulls out a gun and forcibly takes the statue and bead, but while waiting for his getaway car, Indy leaps forth and fights the bastard.
Smith claims he has a key that fits into the statue, and this key indeed opens up the statue’s base to generate a small gold-colored bead. Indy finds the statue and brings it to his office where Marcus Brody and Mr. Smith, an ominous man who just so happens to be tall, blond-haired, and blue-eyed. He is searching for a small statue at the request of a Mr. The year is 1939, one year after The Last Crusade, and while the dark shadows of Nazi rule loom over Europe, our man Indy is clumsily stumbling about the various artifact rooms in the Barnett College museum. The adventure kicks off with the opening credits showing through an interactive intro sequence played purely for slapstick, fitting in perfectly with the series’ unique blend of action and comedy. Widely considered to be the hottest Indiana Jones property not based on any of the films, The Fate of Atlantis was hailed as another success for the point-and-click adventure genre. This was decidedly impressive for a budding game company branched off from a film producer! However, it had not forgotten about the films that indirectly led to its creation, and in 1992, Noah Falstein teamed up with cinematographer-turned-writer for LucasArts, Hal Barwood, to release an all-new Indy adventure in virtual form, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. The hilarious adventures of wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood gained much acclaim and placed LucasArts as one of the foremost Western developers of the early 1990s.
In 1990, after the modest success of the underrated fantasy adventure Loom, LA set the bar for graphic adventures with their seafaring smash hit, The Secret of Monkey Island its sequel, Monkey Island 2: Lechuck’s Revenge, would be released one year later. LucasArts continued to develop awesome graphic adventures after The Last Crusade was declared a hit film and game.
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