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DEVELOPER Q&A

Raiders Of The Lost Ark was clearly a huge inspiration for the game. Were there any other influences?

Raiders was the main inspiration. Maybe Romancing The Stone too. When Simon Phipps and I were brainstorming ideas, we were thinking at the time there hadn’t been a good old exploration platform game starring a treasure-seeking explorer. With a whip. And a gun. Wearing a fedora. So it seemed like a good idea to make one.

You’d previously for the C64. Did that game’s jungle setting creep over into ?

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