High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tomb Raider is a video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. It was originally released in 1996 for the Sega Saturn followed shortly thereafter for MS-DOS and PlayStation versions. Tomb Raider was also released into the mobile gaming market, for Windows Mobile Professional in 2002, the Nokia N-Gage in 2003 the US PlayStation Network in 2009, and was released on the EU PlayStation Network on September 1 2010. Tomb Raider follows the exploits of Lara Croft, an English female archaeologist in search of ancient treasures a la Indiana Jones. The game was commercially and critically successful, and is considered widely influential. It spawned a number of sequels and a franchise of related media.