#LODE RUNNER 2 NES PC#
#LODE RUNNER 2 NES WINDOWS#

It only had 50 levels, but with much higher difficulty than the original. An arcade game of Lode Runner was produced with some added features like the ability to hang off the ends of ladders and an improved enemy AI.īrøderbund released a special enhanced version, Championship Lode Runner, in 1985. Although a level editor was included, there is no way to save levels created with it. In addition, fruits and vegetables randomly appear which may be grabbed for additional points. It had 50 levels, scrolling screens, added music, and graphics redone in a more cartoon-like style. The NES version was released by Hudson Soft in 1984 (North American release 1986) and became one of the earliest third-party games made for that system.

#LODE RUNNER 2 NES WINDOWS#

Other versions include those for the Atari ST, Sinclair Spectrum 48K/128K, a licensed version for the MSX computer published by ASCII Corporation, Sega SG-1000, NES, Windows 3.1, Macintosh, and the original Game Boy. A later DOS rerelease appeared in 1986 which runs on any video card.Ī port for the original 128k Macintosh followed in 1984 it will run on machines up to OS 6 and can also be used on System 7 with a patch. The IBM version was originally on a self-booting disk it is incompatible with video cards other than CGA. The VIC-20 port was cartridge only but did include a level editor which supported saving to either disk or cassette. Of these, all versions besides the VIC-20 were on diskette, but the Commodore 64 also got a cartridge version with only 32 levels and no editor for users without disk drives. The original microcomputer versions included the Apple II series, the Atari 8-bit family, the Commodore VIC-20, the Commodore 64, and the IBM PC. It would be one of the first video games to include a level editor. In a 2010 interview, game designer John Romero claimed that Smith added the level editing function at the request of neighborhood kids he had testing the game, and 'a ton' of the levels they designed ended up in the final game. According to this article, Smith was given a $10,000 advance by Brøderbund to develop the inter-square animation, and to provide 150 levels of play. It was too primitive for an acceptable commercial product as Brøderbund wanted detailed pixel-level movement. Miner, like its text-based Kong predecessors, had only very simple animation where characters move across the screen in block increments. Around Christmas of 1982, he submitted the game, now renamed Lode Runner, to four publishers and quickly received offers from all four: Sierra, Sirius, Synergistic, and Brøderbund. Smith then borrowed money to purchase a color monitor and joystick and continued to improve the game. Unfortunately it does not fit within our product line.'. He submitted a rough version to Brøderbund around October 1982 and received a one-line rejection letter in response to the effect of 'Thank you for submitting your game concept. Through the end of the year, he refined that version, which was black-and-white with no joystick support. Over one weekend in 1982, Smith was able to build a crude, playable version in 6502 assembly language on an Apple II+ and renamed the game Miner. When Kong was ported to the VAX, some Pascal sections were mixed into the original Fortran code. The game was programmed in Fortran and used ASCII character graphics. Shortly thereafter, Kong was ported to VAX minicomputers, as there were more terminals available on campus.

This prototype, called Kong, was written for a Prime Computer 550 minicomputer limited to one building on the UW campus. Smith of Renton, Washington, who at the time was an architecture student at the University of Washington. The prototype of what later became Lode Runner was a game developed by Douglas E.

currently holds the intellectual property and trademark rights of Lode Runner.

This feature bolstered the game's popularity, as magazines such as Computer Gaming World held contests to see who could build the best level. It is one of the first games to include a level editor, a feature that allows players to create their own levels for the game. Unlike later platformers which rely on precision jumping and movement, levels in Lode Runner are puzzle-oriented. Lode Runner is a platform video game first published by Brøderbund in 1983.

#LODE RUNNER 2 NES PC#

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