# Tomb Raider

> Tomb Raider is Core Design's 1996 action-adventure game in which Lara Croft explores ancient tombs, for MS-DOS, the Sega Saturn and the PlayStation.

Web page: https://emulationking.com/microsoft/windows/games/tombraider/
Page updated: 2026-10-26

- Console: Windows
- Released: 1996
- Developer: Core Design

Tomb Raider was developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive in 1996 for the Sega Saturn, PlayStation and MS-DOS. It introduced Lara Croft, an archaeologist hired to recover the pieces of the Scion, an artefact of Atlantis, in Peru, Greece, Egypt and the lost city itself.

It combined 3D exploration, puzzles, platforming and gunfights in levels built on a grid of blocks, and became one of the defining games of the 1990s. An expansion, Unfinished Business, followed for PC.

## Tomb Raider PC Ports

- [TRX](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/windows/games/tombraider/ports/trx/index.md): TRX is an open-source engine that runs Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider II and Tomb Raider III on Windows, macOS and Linux, with fixes, widescreen, controller support and many optional extras.