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1985 video game 1985 video game
Lode Runner's Rescue
Publisher(s)Synapse Software
Designer(s)Joshua Scholar
Platform(s)Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit
Release
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player

Lode Runner's Rescue is a 1985 action game developed by Joshua Scholar for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers as a follow-up to Doug Smiths's Lode Runner. Lode Runner was published by Broderbund, but the sequel was published under the Synapse Software name, a company acquired by Broderbund in 1984. Lode Runner's Rescue uses isometric projection to give a 3D feel.

Gameplay

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Reception

Lode Runner's Rescue was positively received by the press, including Ahoy!, ANALOG Computing, Atari Explorer, and Commodore Magazine which described it as a surprise hit.

Greg Williams of Computer Gaming World praised the Atari version's graphics but asked "How likely is it that a game with girls, mice, cats, and magic mushrooms should be called Lode Runner's Rescue?" He speculated that the publisher put the series name on an unrelated and independently developed game. Roy Wagner reviewed the Commodore 64 version for Computer Gaming World and praised the ability of creating the player's screens with icon screen editor. Ahoy! stated that the Commodore 64 version's graphics were much better than the earlier games.

References

  1. "1985 Index" (PDF). Computer Entertainer. Vol. 4, no. 10. January 1986. p. 6.
  2. Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
  3. "Commodore Power Play Issue 17". October 1985. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  4. "Lode Runner's Rescue". Atari Mania.
  5. "Ahoy! Magazine Issue 26". February 1986. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  6. "Analog Computing Magazine Issue 38 (Graphics Issue)". January 1986. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  7. "Atari Explorer (Winter 1986)". December 1986. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  8. "Commodore Magazine Issue 34". October 1989. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  9. Williams, Gregg (Jan–Feb 1986). "Atari Playfield". Computer Gaming World. p. 32.
  10. Wagner, Roy (March 1986). "The Commodore Key". Computer Gaming World. Vol. 1, no. 26. p. 38.
  11. Kunkel, Bill; Katz, Arnie (April 1986). "Think Fast! Action-Strategy Games for the Commodore 64". Ahoy!. pp. 41–45. Retrieved 2024-09-04.

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