Lode Runner is a 1983 puzzle video game, first published by Brøderbund. 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. This feature bolstered the game's popularity, as magazines such as Computer Gaming World held contests to see who could build the best level.
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Remember when video games could be simple yet addictive? Lode Runner had it: collect gold, dig holes to trap enemies, climb ladders, repeat. Brings back a weird nostalgia for a time when graphics weren't everything, and you could lose hours to those little pixelated guys running around.
The visual design is sign-post clear, color choice eye-pleasing, and the level architecture is fun to navigate and encounter. The basic mechanics of digging and duping (its bread and butter simplest description) leaves a charismatic impression and is satisfying to pull off, any executive clunkiness aside. Otherwise, not a real video game.
Not my kind of game, but not bad.
Not that good technically, but god it's addicting.
I have never understood this game
Lode Runner plays more like a puzzle-platformer reimagining of Pac-Man than an evolution of 1980's Space Panic.
If it had either the more robust AI of the former or the cleverer scoring of the latter, it might've been more than a fun game of digital tag. The 100+ levels and simple yet intuitive level editor do wring a lot out of it at least.
If it had either the more robust AI of the former or the cleverer scoring of the latter, it might've been more than a fun game of digital tag. The 100+ levels and simple yet intuitive level editor do wring a lot out of it at least.