Lode Runner II
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Not officially published

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Description

Lode Runner ist an outstanding platform game, where gold treasures need to be collected in 150 levels. Up to 5 enemies try to make it hard for you. You can run, use the ladders, climb along the bars and collect treasures. As soon as you have collected all the boxes, a melody rings and up until now invisible ladders can appear. If you have reached the most upper line of the screen, you will get into the next level. When you have finished all 150 levels, the game starts again with raised speed.
You cannot jump, but you carry a weapon with you, with which you can dissolve the bricks for a certain time. No matter how far you will fall, you cannot get hurt. There is no time limit but the guards which reappear after their death keep you busy.

The game engine is astonishingly fluent, so you can e.g. press the joystick right and up and your man will walk to the right until it reaches a ladder and will then head up without any additional joystick movement. Another feature is the game editor, with which you can format an empty disk with the the Lode Runner format and save up to 150 self-made levels. You can copy or move whole levels, and the professional version even allows you to create levels with automatic gamesets.

Design

The game shows a typical side platform view on one screen. Every screen consists of a black background, red stones and walls (in gamesets of other parties different colours as e.g. blue or green is used), white ladders and poles and mint coloured guards. Your man and the guards are the only animated parts in every screen, so the atmosphere is calm. There is no background music, which adds to the calm atmosphere. Selective sound effects can be heard when collecting treasures, creating traps in the walls, while falling, when all treasures have been collected and the level can be exited and when you lose a life.

The game can be controlled by the joystick in port 2. The man is moved by pressing the joystick in the corresponding direction. By pressing left/right + fire the field left or right of the man is dissolved and a hole appears.

Controls

in the demo mode
show highscore list	Return 
{{{Width}}} Joystick controls (game starts after press of button)	Ctrl +J 
Icon tastatur.png Keyboard controls (game starts after press of button)	Ctrl +K 
switch to edit mode	Ctrl +E 

Controls in the game	{{{Width}}}{{{Width}}} Joystick	Icon tastatur.png Keyboard
switch controls	Ctrl +K  ⇒Icon tastatur.png	Ctrl +J  ⇒{{{Width}}}
Up	Joystick forwards	I 
Down	Joystick backwards	K 
Left	Joystick left	J 
Right	Joystick right	L 
Dig	press fire button	U =left O =right
Switch digging (in front or behind the player)	Ctrl +D 	not available
Switch on and off level scrolling (eye on and off)	Ctrl +Y  or Ctrl +Z 
Kill the character (when you're stuck...)	Ctrl +A 
Pause	Run/Stop 
Game speed	- =slower / + =faster
Reset (end of game)	Ctrl +R 
Add one life (Cheat: no highscore)	Ctrl +F 
Go to next level (Cheat: no highscore)	Ctrl +U 

in edit mode

(each command can be aborted with Run/Stop )
Initialise a formatted disk	I 	preparing an own level disk
Playing from one levelonwards	P 	no highscore if start level>1
Level editor	E 	does not work with the game disk
Copy level	M 	does not work with the game disk
Delete level	C 	does not work with the game disk
Delete highscores	S 	does also work with game disk

in the level editor

Save level	Ctrl +S 	Insert wall at cursor position	1 
Leave editor	Ctrl +Q 	Insert stone at cursor position	2 
One level forward	Ctrl +F 	Insert ladder at cursor position	3 
One level backward	Ctrl +B 	Insert pole at cursor position	4 
Cursor up	I 	Insert trap at cursor position	5 
Cursor down	M 	Insert exit ladder at cursor position	6 
Cursor to the left	J 	Insert treasure at cursor position	7 
Cursor to the right	K 	Insert guard at cursor position (max.5)	8 
Delete field at cursor position	0 	Insert player at cursor position (max.1)	9 

Points

Level complete	1.500 points
Collect box of gold	250 points
Guard falls into trap	75 points
Guard dies in trap	75 points

Cheats

(Hint: After using the cheat the player cannot enter the highscore)
CONTROL+F	each 1 extra life
CONTROL+U	level jump

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Description from the packaging:

An action game and game generator by Doug Smith.
Spellbinding action!
You are a highly trained galactic commando deep in enemy territory. Power hungry leaders of the repressive Bungeling Empire have stolen a fortune in gold from the peace loving people, and you've just discovered their secret underground treasury. Your goal? To recover every last ingot of Bungeling booty. You'll be running, jumping, and climbing heroically, solving perplexing puzzles, and drilling passageways through stone floors and barriers using your laser drill pistol. You'll need more than fleet feet and good looks to get through this mission alive. You'll need your quick wits and brains!

Create your own games!
Lode Runner is more than a fast-action game. It's a game generator that lets you design your own puzzles and scenes! You can move, add, and take away countless ladders, floors, trap doors, crossbars, gold chests, and Bungeling enemies. It's easy, and there's no end to the variations, challenge and fun!
An arcade style game with 150 different puzzles and scenes.
Design your own puzzles! No programming knowledge required!
Keyboard or joystick controlled.


http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Lode_Runner
