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Lode Runner: The Legend Returns

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…

31 December 1994

Lode Runner: The Legend Returns is an adventure developed by Presage Software, released 31 December 1994 on PlayStation, Sega Saturn, DOS and Mac.

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What Lode Runner: The Legend Returns is

Lode Runner: The Legend Returns is an adventure game developed by Presage Software and released in 1994. It was published by Natsume Inc.. It is available on PlayStation, Sega Saturn, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

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…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Lode Runner: The Legend Returns launched on 31 December 1994, within three weeks of Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw and Battle Arena Toshinden.

Released around the same time: Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw, Battle Arena Toshinden.

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When did Lode Runner: The Legend Returns come out?
Lode Runner: The Legend Returns was released on 31 December 1994 for PlayStation, Sega Saturn, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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