Same here brother, same here. I had been trying to remember the name of that old game for ages when I finally stumbled across this video. Scrubbing through all the old versions of Lode Runner that just didn't look right until I got to The Legend Returns and that was it. Amazing game. Amazing memories.
One 'version' that this video's author (understandably) didn't know about is *Apple Lode Runner* , a remake by Spoonbill Software. Along with a level editor, this freebie has thousands of levels available including the original and Championship ones. People originally had to e-mail the author and wait a few days to get this game but it's currently available for download via his web site. Feel free to give it a try when you have the chance. ^_^
Loricel did some good sound sample compression in the ST adaption! I always admire the fact they managed to get the old speaker to play authentic samples as a means of music and sound effects in an otherwise primitive sound card. The game controls in their games may not be very good, but I definitely can say that they win in the sound department for computer games in the mid-late 1980s!
The PC version by Sierra was being made about the time they were talking about merging with Broderbund. If that'd gone ahead, it'd have meant Activision would own Lode Runner now.
Legend Returns/Mad Monks revenge are the absolute best versions - great music(atleast from psx/saturn version on), beautiful drawn graphics that are not too retro but not too modern either, great gameplay additions(bombs, items )that don't interfere with classic gameplay too much(if the level doesn't have them you play just like the old lode runner), online and splitscreen multiplayer, easy level editing/sharing for infinite replay value. It's just the absolute best of the ports
Lode Runner DS and Battle Lode Runner I think are some of my personal favouritesthe former because I just fell in love with the Cubic redesign. That being said, Lode Runner Legacy has been an amazing nostalgia trip to play through.
Pre-1984 ports: - NES/Famicom is one of my favorite port due to Field of View, graphics and sound. - Enterprise have additional enemy for extra difficulty Sharp X68000 port: It's NES/Famicom port on STEROIDS uh i mean x2 speed Although the uploader missed the Lode Runner Championship which is one of the challenging lode runner games on that time (originally released in 1983 on Apple II while Famicom in 1985). I only cleared 7/50 stages during my childhood days.
I just know the PC-Engine Version, but therefore I know it profound: it's one of our most played party games since 30 years! It is almost on par with Bomberman! I would even imagine it is the best multiplayer version of lone runner ever
The port of the Lode Runner game on the NES remains the best and most importantly this is the very first game made not by Nintendo itself, but by third-party developer and publisher Hudson Soft!!!
Its also the first American game to hit Japan. As far as I know, its also the best selling port of the game, as most people that played the game on computer got it from a pirated copy of the game.
It's a mediocre version, because of limited field of view. People are so fond of it probably only because it was distributed for NES and cute music/graphics
Played the c64 version back then and still give it a try sometimes....the sprite animations look really well for that era and still hold up. Great gameplay
N64 Lode Runner might have looked ahead of its time it seems short 5 worlds + 136 levels + 20 bonus levels visually it seems like it was made in a lazy, rushed, way
@Diskun or the N64 Lode Runner looked like the publisher infograms wanted to cut the costs as in pay the developer less by cutting the quality if the original Lode Runner creator Doug Smith had helped them out or was involved it could’ve, might’ve, would’ve be better
I remember playing the Apple II version. Loved it. Interesting Irem’s Arcaro version replaced the robot guards with cavemen, and one SNES version had the focus on sweets instead of gold (the runner had to get candies instead of gold bullion) while another had the runner as an anthropomorphic animal. Lode Runner Legacy you wonder if in the non-classic mode it was Minecraft-inspired.
Legacy Mode seems ok. Lode Runner doesn't need enhanced graphics. And Japanese games for Super Famicom are absurd. Why the hell they added 5 minutes long intro, top down nonsense and shit load of text boxes? This game doesn't need a freaking story. 🤦♂️
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A game made by Doug E. Smith in 1983/84 for Brøderbund, in all computer systems must be followed by Brøderbund globally and while designed for Japanese-audiences version such as Arcade (for Irem) and Hudson's conversion (a FAMICOM/NES version of enemy looks like Bomber-Man). In the years later, the ownership of Lode Runner was taken by Tozai until today for making HD Lode Runner.
The Atari version wouldn't have looked like that on a real TV, it would have looked more colorful, due to the way color artifacting worked, the lines would merge and create colors.
Man. I have loved Lode runner ever since I played it on the Atari 800 (8 bit version). I have played Lode runner The legend returns back on windows and had played a little of the demo of Load Runner Legacy. I didn't know about these other versions that were for the super famicom, GBC, GBA, or the one on DS. The 360 one I never saw and looked sweet too! If only I knew about it at the time I would have grabbed it.
Some of the earlier more elaborate versions made me think "what if there was a super intense lode runner" and then I got to the GBA version and laughed
Hello thank you for this fantastic video I discovered many other versions of this game that I really like thanks to you ! On the other hand, you forgot a machine... I'll let you guess which one... greetings !
I like in that part 10:55 Lode Runner Nintendo version from NES. With a theme song, the player, gold, and the evil has make by Nintendo. RIP Doug Smith, Publisher of Lode Runner
I would like for the next video the Ballblazer ports for Atari 8-bit, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 5200, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Atari 7800 & Famicom. Saludes from Costa Rica.
I remember playing lode runner at school when i was young (1990~1994). No idea which version it was nor which computer it was played on, but I remember levels had different colors (I remember levels with blue bricks, and others with red bricks). However, the longplays of all the versions I have watched so far only have one color. Any idea which version it could be? It was somewhat like ZX Spectrum / Commodore 64 / Enterprise 64 / BBC Micro versions I believe.
I played the Apple II version to death and my sister & I had multiple floppy disks full of levels we made. The only other version I played was the gameboy version. I was disappointed that you couldn’t save your own created levels…
I had no idea there were so many versions. I see now that the version I played back in the day was The Legend Returns one, 1994, for Windows. I finished all the levels (could it have been as many as 150 levels?)
Mi favorito en mis Atari 8-bits (800XL/XE/XEGS), veo que la versión de C64 tiene más colores, pero los sonidos en la Atari me gustan más, quizás porque me traen recuerdos. Todavía tengo el cartucho. La versión de la NES no me gusta, al no poder verse todo en la pantalla, añade dificultad, pero cambia el juego.
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Lode Runner the Legend Returns and Mad Monk's Revenge were the pure definition of my childhood gaming. So many good memories...
Same here brother, same here. I had been trying to remember the name of that old game for ages when I finally stumbled across this video. Scrubbing through all the old versions of Lode Runner that just didn't look right until I got to The Legend Returns and that was it. Amazing game. Amazing memories.
One of the most playable retro games of all time. It never gets old.
The Atari 8 bits version is using color artifacts, if you run the game in a CTR you will see it in "colors" instead of monochrome.
It's CRT
Oh wait you're taking about Crash Team Racing
You're right, but you can enable "artifacting mode" in the emulator's video settings. Almost all emulator users forget to enable that mode ...
@@theallknowingsause8940 what
Good game
Don't forget to mention Championship Lode Runner, it's like the Mario 2 of the Lode Runners, insane new levels with higher difficulty
One 'version' that this video's author (understandably) didn't know about is *Apple Lode Runner* , a remake by Spoonbill Software.
Along with a level editor, this freebie has thousands of levels available including the original and Championship ones.
People originally had to e-mail the author and wait a few days to get this game but it's currently available for download via his web site.
Feel free to give it a try when you have the chance. ^_^
They tend to exclude "unofficial" ports from these videos. All of the ones included are officially licensed titles.
Loricel did some good sound sample compression in the ST adaption! I always admire the fact they managed to get the old speaker to play authentic samples as a means of music and sound effects in an otherwise primitive sound card. The game controls in their games may not be very good, but I definitely can say that they win in the sound department for computer games in the mid-late 1980s!
The PC version by Sierra was being made about the time they were talking about merging with Broderbund. If that'd gone ahead, it'd have meant Activision would own Lode Runner now.
Dev 1: Let's port this game to 5 systems.
Dev 2: Got it! we will port it to *50* systems.
Dev 1: Wait I said 5 not 50
Dev 2: To late
@@Tretheperson for some reason, hearts get removed if you edit your comments
@@poble oh, That explains it. I just fixed a spelling error.
@@Tretheperson if a person unhearts your comment it devalues their own opinion
Too*
Lode Runner Legacy looks beautiful! It goves me Mega Man 11 and Tron Legacy vibes as well.
So many good times when playing Co-op. Always a bit of shenanigans to sabotage your team mate. Played during the Windows 1994 era.
Legend Returns/Mad Monks revenge are the absolute best versions - great music(atleast from psx/saturn version on), beautiful drawn graphics that are not too retro but not too modern either, great gameplay additions(bombs, items )that don't interfere with classic gameplay too much(if the level doesn't have them you play just like the old lode runner), online and splitscreen multiplayer, easy level editing/sharing for infinite replay value. It's just the absolute best of the ports
Lode Runner DS and Battle Lode Runner I think are some of my personal favouritesthe former because I just fell in love with the Cubic redesign. That being said, Lode Runner Legacy has been an amazing nostalgia trip to play through.
43:47
the enemies falling in cubic lode runner: *S P I N N*
Pre-1984 ports:
- NES/Famicom is one of my favorite port due to Field of View, graphics and sound.
- Enterprise have additional enemy for extra difficulty
Sharp X68000 port: It's NES/Famicom port on STEROIDS uh i mean x2 speed
Although the uploader missed the Lode Runner Championship which is one of the challenging lode runner games on that time (originally released in 1983 on Apple II while Famicom in 1985). I only cleared 7/50 stages during my childhood days.
"So there are all basically exactly the same."
27:14
"What the fuck?"
I just know the PC-Engine Version, but therefore I know it profound: it's one of our most played party games since 30 years! It is almost on par with Bomberman! I would even imagine it is the best multiplayer version of lone runner ever
The port of the Lode Runner game on the NES remains the best and most importantly this is the very first game made not by Nintendo itself, but by third-party developer and publisher Hudson Soft!!!
Its also the first American game to hit Japan. As far as I know, its also the best selling port of the game, as most people that played the game on computer got it from a pirated copy of the game.
Yeah, most iconic version.
It's a mediocre version, because of limited field of view. People are so fond of it probably only because it was distributed for NES and cute music/graphics
True, it was common for some normal video gamers
My earliest memory of lode runner is the monochrome version I used to play at my cousins' place.
I played the Windows '95 SVGA version. It's wonderful 👏 😊.
Played the c64 version back then and still give it a try sometimes....the sprite animations look really well for that era and still hold up. Great gameplay
you must be deluded the C64 version didn’t or hasn’t aged well
The N64 port looks really ahead of it's time.
Feel like I would get motion sickness 🤢
@@AliAbdullah-oi3wc You wouldn't if you're used to games in that type of perspective.
N64 Lode Runner might have looked ahead of its time
it seems short 5 worlds + 136 levels + 20 bonus levels
visually it seems like it was made in a lazy, rushed, way
@Diskun or the N64 Lode Runner looked like the publisher infograms wanted to cut the costs as in pay the developer less by cutting the quality if the original Lode Runner creator Doug Smith had helped them out or was involved it could’ve, might’ve, would’ve be better
I loved the Windows 95 version. I do recall it had a redbook soundtrack like the console counterparts, though.
I remember playing the Apple II version. Loved it. Interesting Irem’s Arcaro version replaced the robot guards with cavemen, and one SNES version had the focus on sweets instead of gold (the runner had to get candies instead of gold bullion) while another had the runner as an anthropomorphic animal. Lode Runner Legacy you wonder if in the non-classic mode it was Minecraft-inspired.
Man your videos make me so happy and everytime I watch a new video I grab the controller and I try those games 😀
43:56 That Art👾🙊🙊
Cubic is the only one, other than direct ports of the NES version, to keep the Bomberman bots.
The original will always be my favorite (and that of my late grandmom), but on the go, Legacy on the Switch in Classic Mode will always be worth it.
Legacy Mode seems ok. Lode Runner doesn't need enhanced graphics. And Japanese games for Super Famicom are absurd. Why the hell they added 5 minutes long intro, top down nonsense and shit load of text boxes? This game doesn't need a freaking story. 🤦♂️
@@mattx5499There's nothing wrong with giving the game a fresh coat of paint
I love how the ST version uses a bit from smooth criminal for its intro 💀
To be fair, most of the lode runner ports who look basic seem to have no music. While the rest seem to look modern and refrenced.
Played the heck out of the DOS version of this back in the day...
That game have atleast 54 versions!
AND Lode Runner is one of the most bootlegged famicom/NES games
THANKS MAN!!!! I LIKE LODE RUNNER!!!!
Are Nice game version
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@@retropia8132 👍🏻
A game made by Doug E. Smith in 1983/84 for Brøderbund, in all computer systems must be followed by Brøderbund globally and while designed for Japanese-audiences version such as Arcade (for Irem) and Hudson's conversion (a FAMICOM/NES version of enemy looks like Bomber-Man).
In the years later, the ownership of Lode Runner was taken by Tozai until today for making HD Lode Runner.
Обожаю эту игру, но она очень сложная. Спасибо за этот сборник!
I remember playing Lode Runner 3D on the N64 as a kid, it was hard as hell. Never got to finish it
PC Window DOS and PlayStation that's all you'll need.
So many versions! I guess it's a pretty undemanding game, so even the VIC20 has a decent version!
Pour rappel, le premier Lode Runner est sorti... en arcade en novembre 1980 chez UNIVERSAL Co. LTD ! Il s'appelait Space Panic ^^
The Atari version wouldn't have looked like that on a real TV, it would have looked more colorful, due to the way color artifacting worked, the lines would merge and create colors.
Man. I have loved Lode runner ever since I played it on the Atari 800 (8 bit version). I have played Lode runner The legend returns back on windows and had played a little of the demo of Load Runner Legacy. I didn't know about these other versions that were for the super famicom, GBC, GBA, or the one on DS. The 360 one I never saw and looked sweet too! If only I knew about it at the time I would have grabbed it.
My mom was literally on drugs with these on the Apple IIc and the Macintosh to the point I had to yell at her to let me play/do homework/use Paint 😂
Hahaha
Ooh I can't wait until the clones/hacks one for this. There are some interesting ones, like "Turtles" and the "Conte Enegy" series.
I have Conte Enegy on my Famiclone lol
The Enterprise 64/128 version has "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by Johann Sebastian Bach. It seems strange for a game like this.
이게 컬렉션으로 다 나왔으면 좋겠네요 로드러너 컬렉션!!
Some of the earlier more elaborate versions made me think "what if there was a super intense lode runner" and then I got to the GBA version and laughed
Okay, the 360 version is pretty good too
What about about Lode Runner 2 on windows from 1998?
The NEC PC-100 version is missing.
I like Lode Runner 1 and Lode Runner Legacy. Lode Runner up because of the main character's design and Legacy because it reminds me of Tron Legacy
The atari ST version is by far the best version of all of all time.
Always like the games since nes but the lode runner twin was nice, also like the ps1 version, xbla, lode runner 1
Hello thank you for this fantastic video I discovered many other versions of this game that I really like thanks to you ! On the other hand, you forgot a machine... I'll let you guess which one... greetings !
Thanks. Excellent
I like in that part
10:55 Lode Runner Nintendo version from NES.
With a theme song, the player, gold, and the evil has make by Nintendo.
RIP Doug Smith, Publisher of Lode Runner
Is there a Championship Lode Runner on other consoles too? or just NES?
How many Dougs does it take to make a Lode Runner game? At least 5, according to the Atari ST port.
it looks like Lode Runner isn't very easy to mess up, as the less powerful computers were able to run it easily.
The ZX Spectrum version is great. And have still the original on 48K tape.
11:16 the origin of bomberman
the bomber-man video game
originated as a MSX game in
1983 or a NES game in 1985
@Diskun yes
My favourite one is Milky Bear: Riches Rider, it was similar to load runner
21:00 Thought we were gonna go into Smooth Criminal for a second there.
They have it on Intellivision now and it has a level editor and a save feature for the custom levels and High Scores.
Retrosultra, thank you
Nice versions
I would like for the next video the Ballblazer ports for Atari 8-bit, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 5200, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Atari 7800 & Famicom. Saludes from Costa Rica.
There's a Famicom version?
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オリジナルをブロードバンド社？
が作ってから数多のメーカーから数多の機種に移植されたが
ハドソン版だけオリジナル製作者から出来の良さにビックリされたらしいっすね
しかも実質マイナス評価から始まってますからね。１画面→スクロールに変更した点が不評だったとか。
Super Lode Runner FDS - MSX2 (1987)
I get up on the DOS version. Memories
I remember playing lode runner at school when i was young (1990~1994). No idea which version it was nor which computer it was played on, but I remember levels had different colors (I remember levels with blue bricks, and others with red bricks). However, the longplays of all the versions I have watched so far only have one color. Any idea which version it could be?
It was somewhat like ZX Spectrum / Commodore 64 / Enterprise 64 / BBC Micro versions I believe.
C64 version so simple and love those sound effects :) It came at 1983 many of systems werent even out yet lol
the Atari ST version had better audio, graphics, sound, visuals
@Diskun why didn’t the Atari ST version look and sound better? was it a lazy remake of an older version?
@Diskun if ST version was delayed until 1990, 1991, 1992 would it look and sound better?
If you were born later, would it helped?
Thanks 😃that was the request I made long ago, also are you looking forward to Bart vs the space mutants?
We were working on it but some versions are giving us serious headaches. We hope we can finish it soon...
Haha, yes! I'm talking about its insane difficult.
11:38 Bomberman debut
Rip doug smith
Also Versions:
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Sharp MZ-700: ua-cam.com/video/3FsOmVBjUNE/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
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Hitachi S1: ua-cam.com/video/mpibnQBKM5M/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
Sharp MZ-1500: ua-cam.com/video/87h97rkmc4c/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
NEC PC-8001: ua-cam.com/video/fPfdorszFz0/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
Sharp X68000: ua-cam.com/video/jc8W3zfiXUE/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
Sony SMC-777: ua-cam.com/video/RH1eXUovKQg/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
Colecovision: ua-cam.com/video/nkUZvGCVcUM/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared (with commentary)
Thanks!
35:04 Released almost to the end of the Super Famicom's lifespan (1990-2003).
I played the Apple II version to death and my sister & I had multiple floppy disks full of levels we made. The only other version I played was the gameboy version. I was disappointed that you couldn’t save your own created levels…
I'd say my favorite version would probably be the SG-1000 version
NES
Lode Runner - NEC PC-9801 (1983)
Lode Runner - NEC PC-6001 (1984)
Apple 2 is 1 st and arcade port is 7th Me:Wait that's illegal
Why? Apple II was the first and the Arcade was just a year later.
Lode Runner - Commodore VIC - 20 (1983)
A pox on whoever came up with the idea of larger sprites at the expense of being able to see the whole screen at once.
I had a VIC-20 growing up, and it looks like the Vic version is one of the better games that was made for it. But I never had that game.
Lode Runner - Macintosh (1984)
Genuine question; what's the best console version?
@Diskun thanks! I'll give it a whirl
PS1.
Lode Runner - Apple 2 (1983)
I like it!
6:39 song
I had no idea there were so many versions. I see now that the version I played back in the day was The Legend Returns one, 1994, for Windows. I finished all the levels (could it have been as many as 150 levels?)
So sad not to see Championship Lode Runner in this list.
one more offshoot was Australian micro-bee computers "Hoardes of the deep realm" all the same levels with the enemies a hooded blue figure
Lode Runner - Atari 8 Bit Family (1983)
Lode Runner - Nintendo Entertainment System (1984)
Alguien recuerda que era muñeco que en ves de arena eran flores, ☹️❤️estado buscando este juego pero en esa versión de flores me recuerda a mi abuela
Lode Runner - BBC Micro (1985)
The NES version are the enemies Bomberman?
Mi favorito en mis Atari 8-bits (800XL/XE/XEGS), veo que la versión de C64 tiene más colores, pero los sonidos en la Atari me gustan más, quizás porque me traen recuerdos. Todavía tengo el cartucho. La versión de la NES no me gusta, al no poder verse todo en la pantalla, añade dificultad, pero cambia el juego.
Lode Runner - Arcade (1984)
Lo jugaba mi Mamá De pequeña
Super Lode Runner - Famicom Disk System (1987)