SPELLBINDING ACTION!

You are a highly trained Galacric commando deep in enemy territory. Power hungry leaders of the repressive Bungeling Empire have stolen a fortune in gold from the peace loving people, and you've just discovered their secret underground treasury. Your goal? To recover every last ingot of Bungeling booty. You'll be running, jumping, and climbing heroically, solving perplexing puzzles, and drilling passageways through stone floors and barriers using your laser drill pistol. You'll need more than fleet feet and good looks to get through this mission alive. You'll need your quick wits and brains!

CREATE YOUR OWN GAMES!

LODE RUNNER is more than a fast-action game. It's a game generator that lets you design your own puzzles and scenes! You can move, add, and take away countless ladders, floors, trap doors, crossbars, gold chests, and Bungeling enemies. It's easy, and there's no end to the variatons, challenge and fun!

• An arcade style game with 150 different puzzles and scenes
• Design your own puzzles! No programming knowledge required!

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Back Cover

A treasure hunt - galactic-style!

It starts with a nasty empire, a stolen fortune in gold, and merciless Bungeling guards. You're a highly trained Galactic Commando. Your mission is to recover the gold taken from the Bungeling people by their own power-hungry leaders. You'll be running, jumping, climbing, solving puzzles, and drilling through stone floors and barriers with your laser drill. Will you get the gold? That depends on how quick and clever you are...

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From the Brøderbund Software Catalog 1987-1988

GOLDEN ARCHES OF THE SUN

Power-hungry leaders of the repressive Bungeling Empire, a nation of car-driving, burger eaters, have stolen a king's ransom in gold from the people by means of excessive fast-food taxes, particularly from the drive-in windows. Someone must recover the gold or the food chain will be broken and the people will suffer a long and painful death by starvation and burger withdrawal.

GAME PLAY: As a Galactic Commando, you must infiltrate enemy lines and gain entry to 50 different treasury rooms to recover the stolen gold from each level. As you stealthily make your way through the dark and seemingly endless maze of rooms, you must evade the hairy, brutal and murderous Bungeling Guards, who are dying to have you for dessert. To escape their clutches, you must jump, climb, and drill your way through stone floors and barriers, with the help of your trusty laser pistol. To outsmart the deadly, and ever-hungry Bungeling Guards, you'll need more than burgers for brains. But remember, they don't call them bungeling for nothing.

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The Official Nintendo Player's Guide (1987)

Lode Runner® (NES®, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone, 500 Wii Points): This landmark action-puzzle game has been a worldwide fixture in video games from the moment of its inception until today, producing many sequels and related products along the way. The player controls the hero, or "Runner," who collects gold nuggets located around every stage, all the while avoiding capture by enemy robots. The action itself is simple, but the stages are designed as increasingly challenging puzzles, and none of the 50 stages is as easy as it seems. The Runner avoids enemies by digging holes in the floor to the right and left of his position—by doing this, he can clear a path to places that, at first glance, seem unreachable. Players must use their brains to collect all the gold nuggets in every puzzling stage if they want to escape to the next. In addition to normal play, this version of the game features an Edit Mode that allows players to design their own stages, adding a new level of enjoyment to the game.

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Nintendo Press Release - Wii (US)

The number of Lode Runner games that have been made since its inception in 1983 is staggering. This series has graced almost all of the best consoles known to man for over 20 years! Now you can re-live your old-school glory days with the release of Lode Runner for Wii™ Virtual Console™!

You are Lode Runner, a lone adventurer out to retrieve a hidden treasure from the evil Bungeling Empire. Use your wits to outpace the evil robot minions (hey, is that Bomberman?!) and scoop up the piles of gold as you search for an exit from each level. Be careful though, don’t underestimate the enemy in this classic puzzle adventure! If you get cornered, use your vaporizer gun to zap the floor from under their feet! Don’t spend too long laughing gleefully at your ill-fated foes though, they can recover quickly.

Play through 50 levels in order to complete your quest. Each stage presents its own challenges. What at first may seem to be a mild paced puzzle game quickly becomes a fast paced, nail-biting, fight for survival as you try to figure out how to reach every pile of gold while fending off the relentless hordes of baddies!

Like other Lode Runner games, the NES version was popular for its level editor. Create your own levels and challenge yourself and your friends in 2 player mode! Download Lode Runner for Virtual Console™ and play one of the most addictive puzzle adventure games ever created!

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www.hudsonentertainment.com - Wii

Here's a game that will never stop challenging you. That's because Lode Runner is more than a spellbinding, fast-action game with its 150 different mind-boggling game screens. Lode Runner is also an easy-to-use Game Generator that lets you create your own games. Without any knowledge of programming, you can easily design unique Lode Runner screens, then bring them to action-packed life. You will maneuver through scene after scene, running, jumping, drilling passages and outfoxing enemy guards in a secret underground hideaway as you pick up chests of gold stolen from citizens of the Bungeling Empire. There's no end to the thrills, chills and challenge. Of course, it's from Brøderbund! For the Apple II, II+ and IIe. Coming soon for the: Atari home computers (disk and cartridge); Atari 5200™ Super System; Commodore 64™; VIC-20™; IBM® PC.

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Advertisement in Ahoy! Issue #1 (January 1984)

Lode Runner Classic contains all of the block-blasting mayhem of the original 1983 smash hit, in which the untiring Runner faces off against relentlessly pursuing enemies in level after level of gold-grabbing gluttony.

The game contains all 150 original levels and mimics the manipulable, original enemy AI. Build your high score as you play through levels sequentially in Expedition mode or whittle down your level completion times in Time Attack mode! Both modes support leaderboards.

• 150 puzzling levels – all unlocked and accessible

• Clever, non-disposable enemies

• New magnification effect – zoom the action around the Runner

• Multiple play speeds – super slow to superfast action

• 2 control schemes – virtual D-pad and touch controls

• Illustrated How to Play section

• Xbox LIVE Achievements and Leaderboards

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Windows Phone App Store description

U.S. NO. 1 HIT!

OUT NOW ON CASSETTE AND DISK

THE CHART TOPPING, ACTION/STRATEGY PROGRAM

LODE RUNNER

NOW AVAILABLE FOR YOUR CBM 64

*The Bungeling Empire strikes again!

Your mission is to recover the gold they stole.*

FEATURES

■ 150 CHALLENGING SCREENS

■ CHEAT KEYS PROVIDING UNLIMITED LIVES & ACCESS TO ANY SCREEN

■ VARIABLE GAME SPEED & FREEZE FRAME

■ HIGH SCORE TABLE

■ JOYSTICK OR KEYBOARD CONTROL

■ PLUS PLUS PLUS ALSO INCLUDES SCREEN GENERATOR - ENABLES YOU TO CREATE YOUR OWN SCREEN DESIGNS

INCLUDES

SPECIAL DISCOUNT AND PRIZE DRAW VOUCHER TO WIN AN SX64 WORTH OVER **£600

Lode Runner is very user-friendly/great fun! Lode Runner is a very well thought-out package and is extremely playable. A must for game connoisseurs.

Tom Hussey**

POPULAR COMPUTER WEEKLY

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Advert in Zzap! (Issue 2 June 85 p75) – UK

Collect all of the gold, or create your own puzzling levels!

Control the hero, or "Runner," who collects gold nuggets located around 50 challenging stages, all the while avoiding capture by enemy robots. Dodge enemies by digging holes in the floor to the right and left, and clear a path to places that seem unreachable. Use your wit to collect all of the gold nuggets in every puzzling stage if you want to escape to the next.

You can also design your own stages in Edit Mode, adding new levels to enjoy!

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www.nintendo.com - Wii U (US)

Lode Runner™

by Doug Smith and Dane Bigham

Spellbinding Action!
You are a highly trained Galactic commando deep in enemy territory. Power hungry leaders of the repressive Bungeling Empire have stolen a fortune in gold from the peace loving people, and you've just discovered their secret underground treasury. Your goal? To recover every last ingot of Bungeling booty. You'll be running, jumping, and climbing heroically, solving perplexing puzzles, and drilling passageways through stone floors and barriers using your laser drill pistol. You'll need more than fleet feet and good looks to get through this mission alive. You'll need your quick wits and brains!* An arcade style game with 150 different puzzles and scenes * Keyboard or joystick controlled

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Back of Cassette Case - C64 (UK)

ARCADE/STRATEGY

**LODE RUNNER™ by Doug Smith

Macintosh version by Glenn Axworthy**

► Specially designed for the Macintosh

► Pull-down menus and windows for all game options

► All 150 original game screens

► Creating custom game screens is easy using the Mouse

► Super high-resolution graphics

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YOU ARE A HIGHLY TRAINED GALACTIC COMMANDO deep in enemy territory. Power hungry leaders of the repressive Bungeling Empire have stolen a fortune in gold from the peace loving people, and you've just discovered their secret underground treasury.

YOUR GOAL? To recover every last ingot of Bungeling booty. You'll be running, jumping, and climbing heroically, solving perplexing puzzles, and drilling passageways through stone floors and barriers using your laser pistol.

YOU'LL NEED MORE THAN FLEET FEET and good looks to get through this mission alive. You'll need your quick wits and brains!

CREATE YOUR OWN GAMES!

LODE RUNNER is more than a fast-action game. It's a game generator that lets you design your own puzzles and scenes! You can move, add, and take away countless ladders, floors, trap doors, cross-bars, gold chests, and Bungeling enemies. It's easy, and there's no end to the variations, challenge and fun.

Lode Runner is one of the most popular programs of all time, winner of Most Popular Program of 1983 for the Apple Computer from Softalk; 1983 Apple Game of the Year from Video Game Update; 1983 Best Overall Computer Software—Arcade Style Entertainment from Billboard; and 1984 Arcade Awards Computer Game of the Year from Electronic Games. Now play coin operated Lode Runner by IREM Corp., in your favorite arcade.

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Back of Box - Macintosh (US)

*# Lode Runner™

An Action Game and Game GeneratorFor the IBM PCDISK VERSION

SPELLBINDING ACTION!

You are a highly trained Galactic commando deep in enemy territory. Power hungry leaders of the repressive Bungeling Empire have stolen a fortune in gold from the peace loving people, and you've just discovered their secret underground treasury. Your goal? To recover every last ingot of Bungeling booty. You'll be running, jumping, and climbing heroically, solving perplexing puzzles, and drilling passageways through stone floors and barriers using your laser drill pistol. You'll need more than fleet feet and good looks to get through this mission alive. You'll need your quick wits and brains!

CREATE YOUR OWN GAMES!

LODE RUNNER is more than a fast-action game. It's a game generator that lets you design your own puzzles and scenes! You can move, add, and take away countless ladders, floors, trap doors, crossbars, gold chests, and Bungeling enemies. It's easy, and there's no end to the variations, challenge and fun!

• An arcade style game with 150 different puzzles and scenes
• Design your own puzzles! No programming knowledge required!
• Requires color graphics adapter card.
• Keyboard or joystick controlled*

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Back of Box - PC Booter (US)

LODE RUNNER™

In this game, the player is required to repeatedly "think" and "take action" to go through and clear the maze scenes by solving their mysterious riddles while averting the enemy's guards who are relentlessly in pursuit of him.

After collecting all of the gold chests, you must come up with new fresh ideas in order to successfully challenge the next level scene.

Although your experience gained from the previous play action will help you overcome some of the future maze scenes, you still have to be constantly on the alert.

You can also enjoy creating your own games by using the keyboard.

This is an intriguing game which requires intellectual depth to skillfully maneuver the unknown maze structures that consecutively develop one after another.

Le joueur doit, dans ce jeu, alternativement "penser" et "agir" pour traverser avec succès le labyrinthe en résolvant ses énigmes mystérieuses tout en évitant les gardes de l'ennemi qui le poursuivent implacablement.

Après avoir récolté tous les coffres d'or, vous devez trouver de toutes nouvelles idées afin de faire face avec succès à la scène suivante.

Bien que l'expérience acquise par les actions de jeu précédentes vous aideront à vaincre certaines des scènes de labyrinthe futures, vous devez cependant être constamment sur le qui-vive.

Vous pouvez également créer vos propres jeux en utilisant le clavier.

C'est un jeu intrigant qui nécessite une certaine profondeur intellectuelle pour manoeuvrer avec adresse les structures inconnues de labyrinthe qui se développent consécutivement, les unes après les autres.

In questo gioco, bisogna continuare a "pensare" e a "passare all'azione" per districarsi nel labirinto misterioso, per scoprirne i segreti e sfuggire alle guardie del nemico, sempre all'inseguimento.

Dopo aver raccolto tutti gli scrigni, bisognerà trovare idee completamente nuove, per far fronte alla sfida lanciata al livello seguente.

Benché l'esperienza raccolta nelle azioni precedenti sia di grande aiuto per affrontare i labirinti futuri, bisognerà essere continuamente all'erta.

Si possono pure creare schemi di gioco propri, usando la tastiera.

Questo è un gioco appassionante, che domanda un grande impegno intellettuale, per manovrare abilmente le sconosciute strutture del labrinto, che si sviluppano improvvisamente una dopo l'altra.

Dies ist ein Spiel, bei dem man wiederholt "denken" und dann "handeln" muß, um in den verwirrenden Labyrinthen seinen Weg zu finden, wobei man einerseits mysteriöse Rätsel lösen und andererseits die feindlichen Wächter umgehen muß, welche einem immer dicht auf den Fersen folgen.

Wenn man alle Goldtruhen gesammelt hat, sind neue Ideen und Wege nötig, um die folgende Spielstufe erfolgreich zu meistern.

Obwohl die in den vorherigen Stufen gesammelte Erfahrung eine große Hilfe bei der Überwindung neuer Probleme bedeutet, muß man dennoch unablässig auf der Hut sein.

Mit der Tastatur können Spiele auch selbst zusammengestellt und gespielt werden.

Dies ist ein fesselndes Spiel und erfordert einiges an intellektueller Tiefe fur die Überwindung der Probleme, die in Form von sich immer neu entwickelnden Labyrinthen gestellt werden.

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Back of Box - SG-1000 (EU)