If you spend any time online, you might've witnessed a bit of a kerfuffle over the Super Mario Galaxy Movie. One side said kids deserve only high-quality media; the other said kids need crap TV and movies so they experience a wide range of things and can develop taste. (And if you didn't witness this, I'm happy you were left to enjoy or hate the movie in peace). Anyway, it got me thinking about a terrible piece of media from my childhood that, despite its flaws, still sticks with me 30 years later: Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures.

It's an action-adventure game in the original sense of the term: a puzzle-heavy game (adventure) with action (snakes and guns). A squished-looking Indy gets dropped into a randomized map with a story randomly selected from a small pool of potential narratives. They all involve finding some object or other and stopping an Evil Bad Guy from getting it first. There are also Nazis and stereotypical........

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