You’ll see that back in David’s amazing artwork for this game. Me and David both love the '80s Japanese video game artwork style, which was a bit more gloomy and threatening than most western artwork from that time.
#C64 LODE RUNNER 2 MANUAL#
This was all done by David Exton, who did an excellent job on the box, manual and cartridge label. You probably also noticed the beautiful artwork on the 3D render of the box. And now they helped us getting their game available on one of the most famous video game consoles of all time: the Atari 2600 (which recently even got its own official Lego® replica set). Sheila and Scott from Team Tozai (yes, the same Scott who produced the Arcade version in 1984, amongst lots of other games) have been taking great care of Lode Runner™ and have pushed the game to all these modern consoles.
That’s because me and Albert from AtariAge have been working with the people from Tozai, Inc., which is the company that owns the intellectual property of Lode Runner™. You’ve probably noticed the ™ at the end of Lode Runner™. I’m talking about the classic console that really propelled video games into everyone's living room: The Atari 2600. But… that is going to change very soon, as I’m excited to announce that Lode Runner™ for the Atari 2600 will be released by AtariAge at the upcoming 2022 Portland Retro Gaming Expo in October, and will be available in the AtariAge store in November! While Lode Runner™ got converted to many platforms, there was one still missing. But it didn’t stop there: Lode Runner™ became available with each new generation of consoles, and today the game is available on all modern platforms: Xbox One / Live Arcade, PlayStation 4/5, Switch and Steam. It even got an Arcade conversion by IREM, produced by Scott Tsumura (more about him later). Smith and was released for (almost) all 8-bit platforms from that era: Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, VIC-20, IBM PC, ZX Spectrum, MSX, NES, etc. This classic 2D puzzle-platform game was developed by Douglas E. I think it’s safe to say that anyone who had a home computer in the '80s knows Lode Runner™.
As one of the early microcomputer games it really stood out because of its challenging gameplay and smooth character animation these little runners really seemed to be alive! The game instantly became one of my favorites. The very first time I played Lode Runner™ was at age 15 on my Commodore 64.
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