Raiders of the Lost Ark for Atari 2600
Shares rank 23 of 78 video games by recommenders
Recommended for a complexity unusual on the Atari 2600 and for being hard to win; some find its objectives unclear.
Recommended for a complexity unusual on the Atari 2600 and for being hard to win; some find its objectives unclear.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Praised as a great, original idea
“George Lucas had exactly two good ideas Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Arc”
Comment from 20 May 2026 in “Paul Schrader Had an 'AI Girlfriend' Who 'Terminated Our Conversation'” “Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark were GREAT ideas, not just good”
Comment from 20 May 2026 in “Paul Schrader Had an 'AI Girlfriend' Who 'Terminated Our Conversation'”
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The four most recommended other video games, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helldivers 2 | 50 | 34 | 60% | 10 | 1.9 yrs3 owners | — |
| GPU building game | 49 | 16 | 75% | 2 | — | — |
| Triple-A Minesweeper | 40 | 25 | 62% | 1 | — | — |
| Quake II | 33 | 8 | 80% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark for Atari 2600This page | 9 | 3 | 75% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
12 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“his work on Raiders with Spielberg”
“I find your Mummy/New Hope idea intriguing and maybe raise you Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
“Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark were GREAT ideas, not just good”
“George Lucas had exactly two good ideas Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Arc”
“The manual helps a ton. It has out right spoilers in it (with decent spoiler warnings).”
“I played the hell out of this game at around 7 y/o.”
“Awesome game. Winning was HARD.”
“It's an early adventure game and has a kind of complexity absent in most Atari 2600 games”
“We could never figure out what that game wanted us to do”
“thinking "wow, that's a brilliant stunt"”
“I think that's just bad script writing.”
“storyboard-as-film, action-by-numbers”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.