11 Facts About Lode Runner

Lode Runner is a 2D puzzle-platform game, developed by Douglas E Smith and published by Broderbund in 1983.

Lode Runner began writing a Commodore PET program called Suicide, using simple text-based graphics.

An arcade game of Lode Runner was produced with some added features like the ability to hang off the ends of ladders and an improved enemy AI.

Lode Runner offered a commemorative certificate to anyone who could submit proof of having beaten the game .

Atari 8-bit version of Lode Runner was converted to cartridge and re-released by Atari Corporation in 1987, as one of the series of releases for the Atari XEGS console.

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Some puzzles require deliberate timing among the digging actions because Lode Runner must run over previously dug-out tiles that have just repaired themselves, while having enough time to pass through ones which have not yet repaired.

Lode Runner uses the power of the PC to create something much more than a video version of Ping Pong.

The Commodore 64 Home Companion said that "there's lots of education hidden in" the level editor, concluding that Lode Runner "is one of the first of a new breed of computer game that lets the player be a creator".

In 1984, Lode Runner was awarded "1984 Computer Game of the Year" at the 5th annual Arkie Awards.

In Japan, the Famicom version of Lode Runner allows editing and creating levels to share with friends using a Famicom Data Recorder.

New Lode Runner game has been announced for the Intellivision Amico.