Indiana Jones 3

Indiana Jones 3 is another of Fuka's text adventures inspired by the popular film franchise, created in 1990 and officially released in 1992 by Proxima – Software v.o.s. as part of the Fuxoft Presents collection. Together with Indiana Jones 1 and 2, it forms a loose series in which Fuka retold the adventures of the famous film archaeologist in the form of a text parser controlled by simple commands, with the player progressing scene by scene and solving puzzles matching the situations the film character typically finds himself in.

The game sticks to the tried-and-tested scheme of Fuka's text adventures – no graphics, an emphasis on smoothly chaining scenes and puzzles, and a playful, ironic narrative tone with which Fuka enlivened even a borrowed premise, so the game doesn't feel like a mechanical transcription of the film but rather a distinctive story with its own rhythm. Unofficial adaptations of popular films and books were typical for the Czechoslovak scene of the time, because licenses were unavailable, so authors simply "appropriated" beloved characters and transplanted them into a text medium that required nothing more than imagination in writing the parser and knowledge of the film's source material.

According to Fuka himself, the Indiana Jones series ranks among his best-known works alongside Tetris 2 and Podraz 3, and to this day old-timers fondly return to it as an example of how inventively a fun game built on nothing but text could be squeezed out of the ZX Spectrum's limited resources. The third installment garnered the same acclaim as the previous two – players especially praised the witty dialogue and inventive puzzle solutions that played with the film's premise without slavishly copying it scene by scene. For today's player, Indiana Jones 3 is mainly a cultural curiosity, but in the context of its time it demonstrates just how strongly film blockbusters influenced even amateur, homegrown game development, and together with the Podraz games and Tetris 2 it forms the core of why Fuxoft is still mentioned today as one of the most distinctive names of the early Czechoslovak computer scene.