“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984) was the first sequel to 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” but it was technically a prequel — its story is set a year prior to the events of the first film.  I was predictably obsessed with seeing it when I was a kid.  I even remember getting excited over the tagline you hear in the trailer below — “If adventure has a name, it must be ‘Indiana Jones.'”

But I was a little late for the party, and a few of my sixth-grade classmates saw it before I did.  They even blabbed about the rope-bridge finale in class, which I guess is the first time in my life that spoilers were ever an issue.  It didn’t affect my enjoyment of the movie, however.  (Somewhere, the shrinks at UC San Diego are smiling.)  I was over the moon for this “second Raiders movie.”

If memory serves, I even had the story on audio cassette.  I think it was a birthday present.  I had the novelization too; that was even more fun!