The Bungeling Empire has stolen a huge cache of gold from its rightful owners, and your mission is to infiltrate its treasury and recapture it. This entails progressing through 150 screens of platforms, ladders and ropes.

The Empire has sent robotic guards down to protect the gold, and contact with any of these will cost you a life. Your method of escaping them is to press fire to dig a hole in their line of movement, thus causing them to fall in briefly, allowing you to move across the gap safely. Once all the gold has been collected, a ladder allowing you to move onto the next screen is added. Completing these screens often requires forward planning and precision.

This was one of the earliest games to include a level editor, allowing the creation of new level designs with no programming skill.

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Alternate Titles

"淘金者" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
"Miner" -- Working title
"LR" -- Common abbreviation
"Lode Runner for WonderSwan" -- WonderSwan title
"ロードランナー" -- Japanese spelling

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User Reviews

Landmark game in video game history!	Apple II	Frecklefoot (191)
I have many great memories from my Apple II days, this game takes place in most.	PC Booter	Erez Schatz (8)
Another variant of the "ladder" theme with customizable levels.	PC Booter	Olivier Masse (421)

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The Press Says

Power Play	Atari 8-bit	Feb, 1988	8 out of 10	80
GameSpot	Wii	Jun 14, 2007	6.8 out of 10	68
The Video Game Critic	Atari 8-bit	Sep 17, 2007	B-	67
Sinclair User	ZX Spectrum	Feb, 1985	6 out of 10	60
Le Geek	Commodore 64	Mar, 2007	3 out of 5	60
Nintendo Life	Wii	Jun 12, 2007		50
IGN	Wii	Jun 11, 2007	3.5 out of 10	35

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Trivia

An Amiga version is mentioned in the French manual, ported by Loriciels' Annecy studio, but beyond that, no information of an official Amiga port exists.

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