Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: Lode Runner - Kotaku Comments

Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: Lode Runner

trouthole — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:14:06 MDT

I have lode runner on an atari 800xl currently. It's cool to hear the 5.25" disk access between levels.

trouthole

Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: Lode Runner

Strangelove — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:56:56 MDT

@COLDBLOODED_BMC:

Oh, man, Karateka was the absolute shit. Until that fucking eagle came in ...

Strangelove

Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: Lode Runner

COLDBLOODED_BMC — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:16:41 MDT

@Eltigro: @Starcade: I too used to love me some Lode Runner on the Aplle ][ (not II) E. Throw in some Prince of Persia, Karateka, and Spy Hunter and you have my entire childhood.

COLDBLOODED_BMC

Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: Lode Runner

Starcade — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:08:17 MDT

The arcade version of Lode Runner, as mentioned earlier, was NOT a good translation of the original Apple II game.

The graphics were changed, the control was too stiff, and the gameplay was closer to Championship Lode Runner (ie, you died a lot quicker). If memory serves, you couldn't play that long on a single quarter no matter how good you were at this game.

Broderbund also gave the arcade treatment to their Choplifter game, and it was another bad translation. Again, stiff control, updated graphics, and gameplay was made more difficult than the version upon which it was based.

On a side note, Lode Runner is resurfacing. Look for an updated version to appear on XBLA.

Starcade

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Witzbold — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:41:42 MDT

Lode Runner was a game that haunted me just due to how insanely hard it got later on. D:

Not to mention the countless times Ive fucking trapped myself with a poorly placed hole. D:

Witzbold

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Strangelove — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:21:01 MDT

Lode Runner was one of my first/favorite games for my PC in the 80s, on 5.25" floppy. It had a level editor, which for its time is pretty cool.

Strangelove

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SolInvictus — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:51:04 MDT

I remember playing this game when I was really young and getting frustrated by the difficulty. I think that was back in 1989.

SolInvictus

Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: Lode Runner

tranzparentl — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:49:24 MDT

I remember playing this game on the PC when I was like 12 years old. Awesome!

tranzparentl

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aelfin — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:57:19 MDT

I love this one for the reference to two years passing making such a quantum leap in gaming terms. I'm hoping the next GFPS (generic first person shooter, of course) promotes itself that way; "Light years away form the first person shooter you pleayed two years ago!"

aelfin

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Karlott — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:54:12 MST

Electronic Games was edited and written by a staff largely composed of those who would later become Video Games & Computer Entertainment magazine. Interestingly, I noticed a writer from the golden era, who wrote for those magazines, Howard H. Wen, is writing for The Escapist now.

Karlott

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artistpavel — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:21:40 MST

sorry for square brackets

artistpavel

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artistpavel — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:19:00 MST

[i]I am also always amazed by the translation of a 2D 8-bit game into the "real life" drawings. So that's what that squishy little green block with a white head would look like if it was a real person[/i]

My thoughts exactly, when I saw the cover art. Thanks for posting.

artistpavel

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JetPogi — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:19:10 MST

I played this on the old, old, old, gameboy. I really enjoyed it but I was too young to finish most of the levels good thing you can change the levels.

JetPogi

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DarkTetsuya — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:56:29 MST

Now there's an arcade game that should be revived... just think of it, usb-supported edits that you make on a PC version? Hell it worked for DDR.

DarkTetsuya

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Nisori — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:52:40 MST

That flyer art looks similar to the first MegaMan (Rockman) box art. Wonder if it's the same artist.

Nisori

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zoesch — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:50:59 MST

The arcade conversion of Lode Runner was probably the worst of the ports at the time, funny that.

I played Lode Runner to death on the C-64 and Apple II... good times!

zoesch

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Eltigro — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:28:54 MST

I think I played Lode Runner on an Apple IIE when I was in junior high.

Eltigro

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BPMμ — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:19:51 MST

@xot:
Aha, guess I didn't read too closely. :P

BPMμ

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ShaggE — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:16:49 MST

GOTY indeed. I think Lode Runner is the pinnacle of gaming technology. Maybe someday in the future we'll see "3-D" video games, but not until 2010 at the earliest. Of course, by then, we'll need an entire megabyte of RAM to render even the simplest of games, so only the wealthiest will be able to play them.

ShaggE

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MagWheels — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:13:24 MST

Lode Runner was one of my favourite games as a kid. Good times. And the level editor was great, adding tons of replayablilty.

It's one of my personal measures of how far video games have come that the picture on the box now looks pretty close to the game inside.

MagWheels

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xot — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:07:06 MST

@The BPM Scrolls IV - Knights of the Nine: "Wow, EGM sure has been around for quite a while..."

That's a different magazine. This is Electronic Games Magazine, not Electronic Gaming Monthly. Electronic Games still owes me a three year subscription I purchased just before they closed shop. Dammit! So bitter.

"...blasting holes through the walls with your blaster"
Floors, buddy, not walls.

I like the original art a lot more.
[www.mobygames.com]

xot

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meandering_drivel — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:57:17 MST

'growing more as the hobby matures'

that's hot.

meandering_drivel

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zakky venom — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:28:37 MST

please please someone please photoshop this to say load runner and give them brown costumes!

zakky venom

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BPMμ — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:11:43 MST

Haven't had much experience with this franchise, but I had downloaded the TG-16 Battle Lode Runner for Virtual Console. It's fun, but can be a bit frustrating (later levels, at least).

Interesting poster. Wow, EGM sure has been around for quite a while...

BPMμ