Part 3

Complete guide to Part 3 of Lost Ark, detailing essential items like the Gold, Ankh, and Hourglass, and explaining enemy behaviors and how to deal with them.

ON (INVENTORY): A box with a handle on top

USE: Shows you the current time

HOW TO USE: Highlight the timepiece and hold the right joystick button. It'll change into a clock face, showing you what time it is.

ITEM: Gold
LOCATION: Treasure Room
DESCRIPTION (SCREEN): A group of dashes in the center of the screen
DESCRIPTION (INVENTORY): A bag
USE: Use to buy items at the Marketplace and Black Market
HOW TO USE: Stand on an item and DROP (not use!) the gold. The item you want should replace it.

ITEM: Ankh
LOCATION: Treasure Room
DESCRIPTION (SCREEN): Looks like an Egyptian ankh...it's light blue and appears at the northeast corner of the screen
DESCRIPTION (INVENTORY): A wider version of what was on the screen
USE: Gives you a grappling hook at the Mesa Field
HOW TO USE: Highlight and use the right joystick button to transport to the Mesa Field. You'll also be given a grappling hook. Push the right joystick up and down to make the arc swing wider and narrower. When the dot crosses a mesa, push the right fire button to swing yourself over there. Also, if you fall, push the right joystick button and you'll be brought back to the Mesa Field to try again.

ITEM: Hourglass
LOCATION: Treasure Room
DESCRIPTION (SCREEN): Kinda looks like a pink box with a hole in the middle
DESCRIPTION (INVENTORY): A wider version of what was on the screen
USE: Also can give a grappling hook, but functions differently.
HOW TO USE: Go onto the Mesa Field and highlight it. The hook will appear. However, unlike the ankh, if you fall you can't use it to save your butt.

ITEM: Chai
LOCATION: Treasure Room
DESCRIPTION (SCREEN): Um, not sure how to describe it. Kinda looks like a triangle with a wing? Anyway, it's blue and appears on the bottom of the screen.
DESCRIPTION (INVENTORY): Looks like a bunch of bananas to me
USE: Give it to somebody to go directly to the Black Market
HOW TO USE: What, you think I'm gonna tell you now? Go see "Frequently Asked Questions!" :)

ITEM: Bullets
LOCATION: Black Market
DESCRIPTION (SCREEN): A circle of dots
DESCRIPTION (INVENTORY): None
USE: Ammo for the gun
HOW TO USE: When you buy bullets, your gun is refilled automatically with three bullets. If you're completely empty, you need to buy them twice to get six. Buy any more than that and you'll just waste money.

ITEM: Shovel
LOCATION: Black Market
DESCRIPTION (SCREEN): An angular shovel
DESCRIPTION (INVENTORY): An angular shovel
USE: Digging in dirt
HOW TO USE: When you're in the Well of Souls, go to the mound of dirt at the bottom. Highlight the shovel and walk back and forth across the dirt, pushing the right joystick button several times while doing so. You should see the dirt slowly disappear.

BAD GUYS AND OTHER FOLKS

Indy will meet up with a lot of unsavory villains and creatures while on his journey, and the following is a list of what he could meet up with. They are listed in the following format:

NAME: Name of villain or creature
LOCATION: What room it's located in
FUNCTION: What it'll do to you if it catches you
DESCRIPTION: A general description of what it looks like
DEFEATED BY: How to destroy it, if you can

• NAME: Snake
  LOCATION: Entrance Room, Marketplace, Treasure Room
  FUNCTION: Death
  DESCRIPTION: A squiggly line that seems to follow you
  DEFEATED BY: The whip or the gun. The flute gives immunity.
• NAME: Sheik
  LOCATION: Marketplace, Black Market
  FUNCTION: Sells you items
  DESCRIPTION: Squares with white or black stripes...they're sitting above the items they're selling
  DEFEATED BY: Not applicable
• NAME: Tsetse Flies
  LOCATION: Spider Room, Valley of Poison
  FUNCTION: Paralyze
  DESCRIPTION: Kinda looks like a cloud of gnats
  DEFEATED BY: You can't kill them, but playing the flute gives you immunity to their paralysis.
• NAME: Spider
  LOCATION: Spider Room
  FUNCTION: Death
  DESCRIPTION: A big white blob that shoots webs
  DEFEATED BY: You can't.
• NAME: Guardian
  LOCATION: Room of the Shining Light
  FUNCTION: Transport you back to a dungeon
  DESCRIPTION: A pulsating diamond-shaped light
  DEFEATED BY: You can't. Sorry.
• NAME: Man in Black
  LOCATION: Valley of Poison
  FUNCTION: Steal items
  DESCRIPTION: A large, tall solid black "man" that looks like he's wearing a hat and a cape. Maybe it's supposed to be Toth?
  DEFEATED BY: You can't. Just run and avoid the tsetse flies.
• NAME: Thief
  LOCATION: Thieves' Den, Well of Souls
  FUNCTION: Steal items
  DESCRIPTION: A short, fat box-like "man" that kinda looks like the McDonald's Hamburgler to me. Anyway, one type has black and grey coloring, and the other has lighter colors. Both run in horizontal lines, some fast, some slow.
  DEFEATED BY: You can't. Just dodge them.
• NAME: Raving Lunatic
  LOCATION: Black Market
  FUNCTION: Death
  DESCRIPTION: Um, it's on the left side, and kinda looks like a face that's been smeared. Gotta love the 2600's graphics!
  DEFEATED BY: Give him a bag of gold and he'll let you pass. See "Frequently Asked Questions" for more details.

THE SOLUTION

Ah, now we get to the big stuff. The following is a walkthough of one possible solution. This is just a basic, step-by-step way to beat the game. No secrets are included, and your final score won't be high enough for the special signature to appear. You will solve it fairly quickly though, and if you've been tearing your hair out trying to figure out what to do then you'll definitely appreciate it. :)

1. You'll start in the Entrance Room. Dodge the snake and grab the whip. Run off the bottom of the screen.
2. Now you're in the Marketplace. Search all three baskets for the key, the gun, and the grenade. If you want to, you can buy a flute, but it's not necessary. Don't get the parachute yet.
3. Once you've got all three items from the baskets, wait for about fifteen seconds and check all three again (the snake will be after you so be careful). The medallion should appear in one of the baskets and will be added to your inventory. If not, wait another 10-15