A polished Indiana Jones platformer, smooth and movie faithful. Beautiful, sturdy and fun even for non fans.
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Category
Action Adventure1 player7+
Description
Side-scrolling action-adventure featuring Indiana Jones traversing the adventures of the three iconic films. Published by JVC, released in Japan in 1994. Levels inspired by Raiders, Temple of Doom and Last Crusade, Indy's whip and pistol, puzzles and bosses. Compilation of the three Indiana Jones films on Super Nintendo.
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
Factor 5 takes the engine it had built for the Super Star Wars games and applies it to three films: Peruvian temples, the Pankot mine, Venetian catacombs and a zeppelin. The Indy sprites are animated with workshop care, hat included, and every famous set piece, mine cart or rope bridge, gets its own staging.
Factor 5 had a reputation for drawing a sound from this machine nobody else obtained, and John Williams's themes benefit: the Indiana Jones march sounds with full brass, legible timpani and a reverberation the chip was not supposed to produce. The tense passages reuse the film motifs without ever caricaturing them.
The game compresses three feature films into a run of set pieces and owns that edit: you go from the Peruvian idol to the German airship without transition, each level standing in for a scene. The dry summary works because it trusts the player's memory to reconstruct what the title cards leave out.
The Japanese Super Famicom version of the 1994 LucasArts/Factor 5 platform-action adapting the Indiana Jones trilogy, released on the home market of German studio Factor 5. The SFC pressing is the most widespread and accessible of the three regions, in a cardboard box with spine card. Collector interest lies in the source version of the Factor 5/LucasArts golden age in Japan, and its place beside the Super Star Wars titles in a coherent SFC line.
Is Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures still worth playing in 2026?
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures, signed by Factor 5 and published by LucasArts, condenses the original Indiana Jones trilogy into a polished action platformer. The cartridge cherry picks the most iconic memories of the three films, from Egyptian tombs to the Holy Grail, and the whip handling clearly echoes Super Star Wars. The difficulty is marked, like other LucasArts SNES titles. For fans of cinematic 16 bit platformers or the Indiana Jones license, a very solid cartridge to recommend.
