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Lode Runner Comments by Bryn Williams

9 May, 2009

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Innes
10/05/09 @ 02:17
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First.
Pastici
10/05/09 @ 02:49
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3:17 am just to post first? Bloody Hell.

But then again, 3:50 just to bitch about you isn't all that great either.

I never could get into lode runner, never seemed fun in anyway to me.
Daikon
10/05/09 @ 03:19
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Another first poster joins my ignore list. Welcome, welcome.

@Pastici: I totally agree, Lode Runner never clicked with me either.

1200 points? Wow.
Atropos
10/05/09 @ 03:24
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"The thinking man's puzzle game"?

As opposed to all those puzzlers aimed squarely at the thickos, like the legendary "Connect 2"...?
HuggyAtHome
10/05/09 @ 08:14
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Just sounds like it's a controller breaker after the initial levels - good to post at a far more civilised time too.

Oh, and Innes - I am 5th - and nobody cares.
uglygamer
10/05/09 @ 09:00
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asphaltcowboy
10/05/09 @ 10:24
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I really really enjoyed the demo. But at 1200 points, it's just a no-goer for me.
menage
10/05/09 @ 11:08
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Late runner would be more appropriate
Watkins381
10/05/09 @ 11:15
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in the first sentence... did you mean thinking mans action game ?
its just that most men think in puzzle games :]
StooMonster
10/05/09 @ 12:06
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Back in 1984 I had a pirate copy of Lode Runner on disc for the C64, I don't think it was even available in the UK at the time, and took it into work and got everyone hooked.

The management were so impressed that everyone loved the game that they licensed the rights from Broderbund and that's how Software Projects created the Spectrum, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, etc ports of the game; and IIRC a tape based version for C64.
StooMonster
10/05/09 @ 12:10
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Actually, thinking back harder ... the guys who joined us from Imagine also brought in copies too. :)

Ah fun times
gohda
10/05/09 @ 13:18
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lode runner ftw
Retroid [mod]
10/05/09 @ 14:48
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I wasn't sure I'd buy this until I saw the snafu which had this listed for 800 points, so I nabbed it before the price went up! :D

It's a classic game and while the presentation on this version is a little bit 'flashgame' in places, it's a good version.
DFawkes
10/05/09 @ 17:31
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They've kept it the way it should be, so it's still a nice little game, which I'll get when they put it back to 800, or never if that doesn't happen.
Waffleaber
10/05/09 @ 20:45
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I didn't think I recognised the writing style. Good review Mr Williams, nice balance of information and funny. More of this guy Eurogamer.

+1 to the 800 point brigade.
solidSnake04
11/05/09 @ 00:38
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"a bit slow"...not exactly a nice adjective -like sentence
geeza2020
11/05/09 @ 11:25
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i always found Lode Runner far far far too frustating for my tastes. I like having to think in games, but not when my mistakes are punished with having to start the level over and over and over and over.......
sneetch
11/05/09 @ 13:05
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@Atropos
As opposed to all those puzzlers aimed squarely at the thickos, like the legendary "Connect 2"...?

I LOLed my ass off. :)

Nice sounding game, I loved the original but I'm not spending 1200 on it though as I know I'd play it for an hour or two in a haze of nostalgia and then forget all about it like I do with most Arcade games.

800 points on the other hand and it'd be a definite sale.
Pasco
11/05/09 @ 20:17
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30fps-difficult-to-read-ugly-graphics-insta-fail! Which level of incomprehensible incompetence must one programmer reach in order make such a game run with 30fps when the menu with the same graphics runs with 60?

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