While watching this documentary, HSW says something to the effect of "movie licenses were starting to come into vogue, and I think Raiders was the first one."
When he said that, something did not sound right. I came here to check the (2) movies I am thinking about and methinks that information is wrong.
There was the movie titled Superman (1978), and the game Atari cartridge came out (1) year after the movie release.
Excuse the late reply, but I just saw this doc today and wanted to see what was being said about it. I hope you see this.
I think the reason he mentioned Raiders and not Superman, is because Superman wasn't solely a movie property. Granted it's no coincidence that it came out around the time of the movie, but Raiders was the first game to be based on just a movie.
At least that's my take.
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Yeah, I don't think the game is really based on the movie. Though to be fair few Atari games could really be called faithful adaptations of whatever they were based on. There's little in the Superman game that points to anything in the film, other than a bridge being destroyed. But in the film its Golden Gate Bridge being destroyed by the earthquake and in the game Lex Luthor and his goons blow up what looks like a little foot bridge. The plot of the game is basically just to capture criminals and repair the bridge.
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I believe "the empire strikes back" game was released in the june of '82 and raiders was november '82 beating it by a few months.
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