About classic Tomb Raider games

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RolStoppable said:

I played the first Tomb Raider before I had ever touched an N64 game. Even before the revelation of Super Mario 64, Tomb Raider felt like garbage. Its draw was that it was among the first 3D action-adventure games, but moreso than that, it had Lara Croft who became more popular than the games themselves.

Tomb Raider II and III leaned into that by name-dropping her on the cover art, at least on the PS1 US covers. Angel of Darkness even had her name at the top of the title, like a movie poster, with the Angelina Jolie movies being really popular at the time. There was also a King of the Hill episode that name-dropped Lara Croft.