Reviews

If it's not clear enough from the title what's the inspiration for this game, maybe you should take a look at the loading screen: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/r/gif/RaiderOfTheForgottenArk.gif

and if it's still not clear, and you've been on Mars in the last thirty-three years, maybe you should take a look at this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146316/reference.

Programmed in basic, with UDG graphics, relatively slow, jerky/blocky animation - jump over abysses, take the idol, come back, go through the maze, etc. it actually can be fun for about 30 whole seconds.

What are you waiting for - grab it now!

1984 Spectrasoft (UK)
by D.A. Cooper

This is actually a nice BASIC rendition of the movie with ALMOST the same name.
Several movie scenes are present and are quite fun. I've managed to skip a few stages, thanks to the unprotected listing, and played every step, and didn't stumble on any errors or bad programming. So I think this could keep happy any BASIC written games fan, or even a kid back in '84, until Xmas time and money on a sock for a proper game.

The reason not to forget the Forgotten Ark is as a reminder of how much less precious and fearful we all were of a bit of harmless semi-commercial fanware back in the 80s.
The best that can be said of the game is that the loading screen is not bad.
Oh and, at the end of stage two, if you have battled through the maze of slowly moving circles and get to the mythical character top right of screen you will get your next gargantuan task presented thus:
"The old man says 'You must collect 4 pieces of stick.'"
Yep, just when you are in the Indy zone, jumping pits, dodging and swerving you get just a little bit of carry over from the Barbara Woodhouse Dog Training Simulator official licence that may have been the original plan.