1959: Battle Lode Runner PCE \\ Starting single player!
0Starting off in the single-player puzzle mode of Battle Lode Runner for PC Engine, played in the emulator Mednafen in Windows!
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0:00 - start
0:58 - playing
26:11 - pushed out of a hole!
44:35 - Edit Mode
46:40 - multiplayer demo
51:15 - readin' 'bout Lode Runner
1:03:59 - wrap!
I'm pretty sure I played Lode Runner on C64 or something back in the day, briefly. I don't remember being able to stand on CPU characters' heads and have them push you up ladders! So, I guess that's kind of neat. Also how the shadows cast by the platforms update when you dig holes in the platforms, nifty effect there.
It's cute and all a slightly dingy way but the basic Lode Runner gameplay still doesn't quite get me. Maybe I'm phobic of being trapped in my own holes--I had to stop playing Mr. Driller games too. : PPP
In BLR there's a lot of slow re-traversals and manipulating the loopy AI. I'm not a patient puzzle player and kept spamming Mednafen's fast-forward. = P
The China stages seem a bit stereotype-y, but what do I know.
Oh yeah not thrilled by the invisible trap doors in the second set of stages! Although, according to Wikipedia, the original Lode Runner had trap doors too; the original also had standing on guards' heads--this is how you run over a guard who's fallen in a hole, after all--but Wikipedia doesn't mention guards in the original ever pushing the player upward to clear a gap in a ladder, as they did here. (Wikipedia DOES mention that in the original, some stages require you to use a FALLING guard as a stepping-stone! = o)
The original 1983 Lode Runner's gameplay was very similar to that of Universal's 1980 Space Panic, considered the first platform game. (Wikipedia adds that the games were originally called "climbing games"--both Space Panic and 1981's Donkey Kong--and Lode Runner, for that matter--start you at the bottom of the screen, with ladders leading up to platforms above. That label would also have included the 1980 game Crazy Climber (which ALSO had a giant ape ; ).)
The original Lode Runner was a huge hit on 8-bit computers--top seller in '83 in US, 300K sold by '84, and by '85, an equal number of sales in Japan! Japan really ran with it: Hudson Soft's NES version sold 3 million copies worldwide--2 million in Japan! And way more Lode Runner games have come out than I'd thought, particularly in Japan, where it had SIX arcade releases--by Irem and even shmup mavens Psikyo--and numerous console releases through about 2003, and even new handheld and mobile Lode Runner games through about 2006.
(The dungeon crawler series I mentioned that like Lode Runner made an even bigger hit in Japan than when it started in the US is Wizardry.)
Battle Lode Runner is 1993, and emphasizes multiplayer modes. A 1990 Pack-In-Video game, Lode Runner - Lost Labyrinth, is a more conventional-looking Lode Runner game.
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