Indy beats sober Biff in Last Crusade

In this video from the old adventure game Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, I beat Biff the nazi w/o giving him a trophy full of ale and w/o cheating. As far as I know, I'm the first in history to do this. The original EGA version was released 1989, so it was about time :)

I haven't counted how many times I needed to fight him to do this, but I think the number is between 15,000 and 50,000. Just the last about thousand tries were fought with this final strategy, which took me very long to discover.

Now I've won every single boxing opponent w/o weakening them and w/o cheating in both Last Crusade and Fate of Atlantis. Earlier, I have uploaded some videos about the toughest fights in LC and FoA.

One doesn't get any IQ points from beating the sober Biff, even though beating him when he's drunken gives you 15 points. Beating the ticket taker in LC or Arnold in FoA gives 10 points, and special 7 points to the total IQ points are given in FoA when one beats Fritz and then activates the guard robot. I think this means that the fight against the sober Biff wasn't meant to be winnable (not even by a very advanced player), unlike all the other tough fights in these two games.

The game version was 256-colored 2.0, and the game was run in DOSBox 0.72 with 20,000 simulated CPU cycles / ms. The high frequency was chosen just to shorten the loading times between fights, and it didn't affect significantly to the running speed of the actual game, compared to e.g. a case where the value is 6000. This video is a result from uploading the original video recorded with DOSBox. The GMT-time when the video was recorded was 8:50 PM, 2008-04-18.

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[Geistesbiss]

Have you beaten him more than once (sober, without cheats)?

[Ma5terViking]

I haven't tried to beat him after this fight. It took me so many tries to do this that I wasn't very eager to try to beat him again very soon (except maybe for a multi-segment speed run).

[Klher86]

There should be a soldier in the corridor at the bottom after Biff (where you enter the room).

Where is he ?

[Ma5terViking]

If I remember right, I entered the castle the noisiest possible way: fighting every guard I saw. That makes some of the guards patrolling in the corridors of the second and third floor run towards you even if they don't see you. Before I recorded this, Sigfried had already run by Biff to confront Indy and eat his knuckles.

[andi4life]

In Fact, in my original version of the game, Biff moves much faster forward if indy goes back, regains health much faster, and his punches damage Indy much stronger (3 hits and indy's down). The version I have is also PC version 2.0, VGA 256 color.

[Ma5terViking]

Near the end of this fight I actually did one quite bad mistake: I punched unnecessarily early, without full power, so the yellow bar didn't get skipped. A full powered punch would have done approx. double the damage. I'm happy that mistake didn't ruin the fight.

4. Biff beats Indy with three punches if they hit directly. However, Indy can block eight punches of Biff's without fainting.

[BaronGrackle]

Bravo, bravo! I, too, believed this was impossible!

[RappingNinja]

I can't believe this is possible, you are the ultimate master.

[ClrSentinel]

THAT WAS BOSSLIKE !!

[ptibilly]

This is the ultimate geek challenge!

[r8qt7]

best ever

[DrJonezzz]

@Daniel4646 I once wrote down a list with all answers to pass all the guards save Biff and sent it down to a magazine, but they didn't publish the list, and I didn't thought of making any copy beforehand. :-(

[DrJonezzz]

Nice job! I've played this game more than one hundred of times and my brother was able to beat Biff once, too. Now try to leave Germany by plane without getting shot down by the nazi aircraft, and you will have totally mastered this game!

[skotafactor]

Now beat Hitler

[Lutyelbaken]

awesome!

[TheAdolfHparodies]

Since it was very very hard to beat him (which I couldn't finish him) I was really expecting him to have something and after beating him we can take it from him, something interesting like laser gun or something