Lode Runner: The Legend Returns

Lode Runner: The Legend Returns

1994 Presage Software

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About Lode Runner: The Legend Returns

Lode Runner: The Legend Returns is an action and adventure game developed by Presage Software and published by Natsume Inc., released on 31 December 1994.

Lode Runner: The Legend Returns is a 1994 remake to the classic Lode Runner video game. The game takes place in a single frame with many different elements such as ground, ladders, treasure, items, and villains. The goal is to collect all the treasure, avoid touching any of the monks, and reach the exit. A level editor is included with the game, allowing several levels to constitute a single group of levels, as well as the ability to switch between different tile sets. The editor can choose to set the level in night or day, as well as change the background music regardless of the tile set.

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The player character is named Jake Peril and wears a gray suit, although a second player can play as his partner, Wes Reckless (who wears a blue suit), during two-player cooperative levels and head-to-head hotseat play. The robots of the original game are skeletal "mad monks" who wear red robes. The game's manual explains that Jake, and optionally Wes, travel to unknown underground worlds in the hopes of scavenging the untold golden treasures that litter the game's levels. At the end of the game, Jake is seen in the Technological world calling an elevator to the surface, eagerly waiting while the credits roll. The elevator arrives but malfunctions, leaving Jake no other choice but to reach the surface using the presumably tall staircase.

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Gameplay

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Genres

Action Adventure Platformer Puzzle Strategy

Modes

Single player

Perspective

Side view

Tags

Best single-player games

Rankings

Best Platformer games on PCBest Platformer games on MacBest Platformer games of 1994Best PC gamesBest PC games of 1994Best games of 1994

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