Trivia
For a short period, lead artist Bill Eaken worked at Sierra On-Line, and he hated every second of it.
When he did the evil ghost animation at the end of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, where it swirls around and comes right up to
the player and speaks, he made it say "F**k Sierra."
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was named #93 overall among the “150 Best Games of All Time” by Computer Gaming World Magazine (15th Anniversary Issue--November 1996).
Contributed by
PCGamer77 
(3025) on May 02, 2008.
Original script for the game was written by Hal Barwood, also wrote movie scripts: The Sugarland Express (1976), Close of the Third Kind (1977) and Dragonslayer (1981). Later created story for Star Wars: Yoda Stories (1997) game.
Contributed by
Garcia (5010) on Sep 21, 2006.
The story line of this game is fairly accurately based on history. Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler attempted to rewrite history in an effort to prove that the Aryan race in fact descended from the Atlanteans. To this end he instigated archaeological digs in Iceland, the Middle East and Tibet.
You may want to read Himmler's Crusade : The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race.
Similar occult / Nazi material appears in Raven Software's Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Many of the street names in Monte Carlo are insider gags. Among other things there is an "Avenue des Troi Bois" and a "Boulevard des Guerres des Etoiles". "Trois Bois" is French for "three wood", which is obviously a reference to Guybrush Threepwood from Monkey Island. "Guerres des Etoiles" translates as "Star Wars".
Contributed by
Istari (403) on Jul 16, 2002.
You can press Insert during fights to "sucker punch" your opponents and win immediately. To this day this is being reported as a cheat, even though it is a feature of the game and clearly pointed out in the manual (page seven).
This is either a sign of how widely this game was pirated or of how few people actually read manuals.
Contributed by
Istari (403) on Jul 16, 2002.
In the CD-ROM "talkie" version, when Indiana strains physically he lets out a Wookie roar.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the appearance of Max. When Indy plays with the flashlight in the Monte Carlo hotel, one of the shadow puppets is that infamous rabbitty guy.
When you are trying to sell the mask to Omar-Al-Jabbar, one of the things he gives to you is a baseball ball "signed by Lou Gherigh", as he says. But if you look at the ball, it's signed by "Ron Gilbert". Ron Gilbert worked for Lucasarts. He was the creator of "Monkey Island".
Contributed by
James1 (248) on Sep 25, 2001.
Fate of Atlantis was rated the 42nd best game of all time in PC Gamers November 99 edition.
A Fate of Atlantis comic book series with four issues was published by Dark Horse in 1991. It was based on the story created by Hal Barwood and Noah Falstein, but only loosely followed the game's storyline.
Several Harrison Ford movies are referenced in FoA. For Example, Indy complains that when he was in school, the principle would always send letters home to his father that began with "Regarding Henry..."
Contributed by
ClydeFrog (10174) on Jun 25, 2000.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was revolutionary since it included an original Indy storyline written by game designer and Hollywood script writer Hal Barwood, not forgetting the original musical score by LucasArts in-house composers.
There were two versions of this game: a floppy version (it took 10 or 12 if I remember correctly) and a CD-ROM version. The floppy version featured talked interactions for only the introduction, while the CD-ROM one was a full "talkie".
There is a place where Indiana Jones reads a baseball that is authographed by one of the creators of the game.
