One of the best games ever put to pixel on the Amiga is LucasArts’ 1992 masterpiece Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (FOA). It’s not typically rated as quite as highly as the Monkey Island series, but it is always quite close. In my view it is as good if not better.
Part point and click, part puzzle, part “choose your own adventure” (although it is fairly linear), and part arcade-action, FOA is often referred to by Indy aficionados (as well as LucasArts, see photos of the U.S. box below) as the fourth Indiana Jones. That's right - this video game is respected at the same level as the movies. It is also referred by some adventure fans as one of the best installments of the series. There was a 4-issue comic book written by Hal Barwood, who designed and directed the game of the same title, but apparently the comics didn't follow the game to the letter (or vice versa, the comics were published a year earlier in 1991).
As a result of all of this respect for the game, the price of an original boxed copy is often astronomical on Ebay, especially for the Amiga platform. Finding a complete, NTSC (original June 1992 release by LucasArts, not U.S. Gold or Rainbow Arts, although those ask insanely high prices, too), and fully working copy can find prices north of $175. I’ve even seen prices as high as $230. And some of these are even the 3rd-party published European versions (probably still in NTSC mode, but regardless).
The box included 11 (yes, eleven) disks, a very important manual for bypassing the rather interesting copy protection, and a quick-reference card. I’ve seen some auctions come with a thin, folded “poster” about the size of a regular sheet of paper, or a page from a magazine.
Mine doesn’t have a poster, but it has everything else (if it was supposed to have a poster, I’m not entirely sure). And the disks all installed silky smooth to HD.
And I got it for $40.
Forty bucks is less than original retail price in 1992! I couldn't believe my luck.
As soon as I installed it, I played it to the point where I made it to Iceland.
Then I put everything (except the manual) back in its box, and set the box into a nice comfy wooden crate. Amongst my hundreds of other crates. In my endless warehouse. Where it shall sit, but not be forgotten.