Raiders of the Lost Ark (Atari 2600)
Final Version – Revised on August 19th, 2002
By: Dude (dudeman0009@hotmail.com)

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Table of Contents

I. Intro
II. Enemies, rooms, and items
III. Walkthrough
IV. Ending

I. Intro

Hello. I was not going to update this FAQS again, but Graymouser245@cs.com 
emailed me a while ago with all the right names of the stuff. There will 
probably be no more updates anymore. The enemies list was slightly updated 
too. And I looked at the walkthrough again and noticed the beginning was 
kind of confusing. I think you should be able to understand it though

II. Enemies, rooms, and items

The first list is the enemies (there are probably more, but they aren’t
important)

Enemy name
What they do
How to kill them or avoid
Where they are

Snakes
Kill you
Use the whip or gun on them
Many places

Thieves
Steal from you and kill you
You can’t kill them so just run
Valley of poison, Thieves’ room

Tsetse flies (can’t spell)
Paralyze you
You can’t kill them so just run
Valley of poison

Raving lunatic
Kill you
You can’t kill him, but you can make him not kill you by giving him gold
Black Market

Gaurdian
Puts you in a dungeon
You can’t kill it so just run
Room of shinning light

Sheik
Sells you stuff
You don’t
Black market, other market

The second list is the rooms (I’m not sure what some of the names are, and
there might be some I didn’t say, but they are not important)

Room name
What is in it
Why you go there
location

Entrance room
A whip and some snakes
To get the chapel entrance and get the whip
Room you start in

Market place
Snakes come if you pick an item up and there is a gun, key, grenade,
parachute, whistle, and a medallion.
To get important things
Below the rooms you start in

Temple entrance
A clock and entrances to four rooms
To get to important items
To the right of the room you start at

Room of shining light
A sun and dungeons
To get to important items
Two rooms to the right of the beginning room

Treasure room
Gold, three items that will appear after you pick the gold up, and snakes
To get important items
Right of the Room of shining light

Spider room
Some enemies
You don’t need to go here
Right of the chapel entrance

Mesa field
A lot of mesas
To get to the map room
Below Market place

Mesa side
A tree and a hole that leads to the well of souls
To get to the well of souls, and to get down from the map room
Near the well of souls, side of the mesas, above the valley of poison

Map room
A map (obviously)
To see where the ark is
Below the mesa field

Valley of poison
A thief and tsetse flies
To get down from the mesa field
Under the mesa field

Black market
A maniac, a shovel, some bullets
To get the shovel (very important)
Below the thieves’ place

Thieves’ room
Some thieves
Get to the Black Market
Below the map room

Well of souls
Four thieves and a pile of dirt with the ark in it if it is the right one
To get the ark
Next to the mesa side

The third list is the items

Item name
Where it is
What it does
What it looks like on the map
If it is necessary or not

Whip and gun (there are almost the same thing so I am putting the together)
Whip- beginning room, Gun- Marketplace
Can kill some enemies and opens the dungeons in the room of shinning light
(the gun goes farther)
A brown line
You need one of them (I recommend the whip, you can use it as much as you
want)

Flute
Marketplace
Makes you immune to snakes
A yellow line
No

Grenade
Marketplace
Blows a hole through the wall in the beginning room
None
Yes

Medallion
Marketplace
Let you see where the ark is in the map room
None
Yes

Key
Marketplace
Lets you get to the map in the map room
None
Yes

Gold
Treasure room
Lets you buy stuff
A bag
Yes

Ankh
Treasure room
Lets you get across the mesas by teleporting you from almost anywhere in the
game to the mesa field
A hook with a circle above it
This or the Hourglass

Hourglass
Treasure room
Lets you use the grappling hook, but you must be at the mesa field to get it
to work
An hourglass
This or the Ankh

Chai
Treasure room
Needed to get the yar and lets you get to the black market easily
A light-blue thing
Yes

Clock
Chapel entrance
Lets you see what time it is
A deformed “L”
No

Parachute
Marketplace
Let you go from the mesa field to the valley of poison safely, and gets you
to the well of souls
Four squares
Yes

Bullets
Black market
More ammo for the gun
Six dots
No

Shovel
Black market
Let you get the ark in the well of souls
A shovel
Yes

III. Walkthrough

   You start out in a room with a big rock and a whip.  Get the whip and go 
down.  Get the key, medallion, gun, and grenade.  There are two different 
things you can do now:

1.  (This is the way I normally use) Go to the sheik in white and buy the 
parachute with the gold you start out with.  Now go to the treasure room.

2. Just leave with the bag of gold you start out with.  Go against the right 
wall and use the grenade.  Walk quickly down to the marketplace again.  
Immediately walk back up to the beginning room and go thought the hole.  You 
will get into the temple entrance.  Walk through the lower right door.  Whip 
the dungeon and walk to the right wall.  Now there are two things you can do 
here:

1. (If you did #1 last time, do this one) Drop the gun.  Pick up a bag of 
gold and if the ankh appears, pick it up.  If it doesn’t appear, go to the 
room of shinning light, drop the gold, and try again.

2. Drop the gun and the whip.  Pick up the bag of gold and get the ankh if 
it appears.  Use the ankh whenever you get it and have three bags of gold.  
Go to the room of shinning light and use the ankh.  You will get to the mesa 
field.  Go across the mesas until you get to the end.  If you fall, than 
will you are going down the mesa side, use the ankh and you will end up 
where the mesa you started.  Drop the ankh when you finish and go down the 
middle of the mesa to the map room.  Select the key and walk down until the 
map appears.  Walk right and get in the center of the map.  Use the 
medallion and wait until the sun comes up.  If you are not in the middle, 
you will fall to the valley of poison and die.  When the sun comes up, one 
of the mesas will flash.  REMEMBER WHICH MESA FLASHES.  Get the key and walk 
out.  Once you are out, drop the medallion and the key.  Now there are two 
different things you can do here:

1. Select the parachute and walk off the side.  Will you are falling, use 
the parachute.  When you land, quickly drop the parachute and run through 
the valley of poison, avoiding the tsetse flies and the thief.  When you get 
to the end, you will get to the marketplace.  Go back to the treasure room; 
get two bags of gold and the chai.  Go to the marketplace and give the chai 
to the sheik in black. (You should have three bags of gold, and a whip right 
now.

2. Walk down to the bottom of the map room and you will get to the thieves’ 
room.  Walk through it without touching a thief. (You should have three bags 
of gold now.)  You should be in the black market now.  Give the raving 
lunatic gold and walk past him to the sheik with the shovel.  Drop two bags 
of gold and walk to the northeast side of the room and you should get to the 
marketplace.   Walk to the treasure room now.  If you used the second way of 
doing this, pick up the whip.  You should have a whip and a shovel right 
now.  Get an ankh, and bag of gold, and a chai.  Walk to the marketplace.  
Buy a parachute.  Use the ankh and get to the big mesa that looks like a 
flying saucer.  Walk of the mesa with the chai highlighted.  Drop the chai 
as you fall and use the parachute once you dropped it.  If you are wondering 
why you have to do this, it is because it gets the yar.  You need the yar to 
beat the game right.  Drop the parachute when you land in the valley of
poison and walk up to the market place.  You should now have a whip and a 
shovel.   Go to the treasure room and get a bag of gold and an ankh.  Buy a 
parachute and use the ankh.  Go to the mesa that was flashing when you went 
to the map room.  If you don’t remember, that’s your fault because I told 
you to remember in big letters.  You can drop the whip if you want, but I 
recommend.  You will see why at the bottom.  Run of the side of the mesa and 
quickly use the parachute.  Go to the left to the tree and a hole.  Try to 
slide into the hole by getting the bottom of the parachute in the tree.  You 
will now slide into the well of souls if you do it right.  Quickly drop the 
parachute before the thief gets you.  If you didn’t get out in time and 
didn’t drop the whip when you got to the mesa, it will steal the whip and 
not the shovel.  That’s why I recommend not dropping it.  Walk down to the 
bottom of the well of souls to the pile of dirt.  Use the shovel and dig up 
the ark.  If you did the game fast, didn’t die, and got the yar, you should 
be on the pedestal thing very high.  As long as you got the yar, you should 
see the maker of this game’s initials and the number two.  The two means 
that this is second game.  If your wondering what game that is, the name is 
Yar’s Revenge.  Raiders of the Lost Ark is a lot better if you ask me.

IV. Ending

That’s the walkthrough.  I know it was very short, but it was a short game.  
Have questions, than email dudeman0009@comcast.com