The Running Man (Amiga)

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Description

Inspired on the movie with the same name with A. Schwarzenegger, you are an ex-cop presumed guilty for the murder of many civils. In jail, one day, you can escape and go to the airport to go away. Unfortunately, you are captured again but for other person now. Not the state, a director of a show called running man. This show is the most popular hobby in future, everybody play money. A guy (you) are hunted by professional killers, he must runs and stay alive for win money. So with the four levels, you must fight with your hunters and go quickly to the end of levels if you want recovery freedom one day...

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Part of the Following Groups

• Inspiration: Movies
• Theme: Future sports / Brutal sports

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Critic Reviews

Commodore User	Apr, 1989	79 out of 100	79
ST/Amiga Format	May, 1989	73 out of 100	73
The Games Machine (UK)	Jun, 1989	53 out of 100	53
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	May, 1989	47 out of 100	47
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Jul, 1989	5.6 out of 12	47
Zzap!	Sep, 1989	40 out of 100	40
Power Play	Jun, 1989	31 out of 100	31

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Trivia

The movie The Running Man is inspired by a novel from Stephen King published in 1982. There are many similarities between this novel and the 1958 novel The Prize of Peril, written by Robert Sheckley. In 1983, the latter was also adapted into a movie, Le Prix du Danger with Gérard Lanvin and Michel Piccoli.