Hyper Lode Runner

Nintendo exclusive

Your objective is to gather gold that is scattered on the brick platforms, which are connected by ladders. You are chased by robots (cyborgs) that end your character's life if they catch him, though you can stand on their heads. Your main weapon is the ability to dig both to the left and right of your character. The holes you dig are only temporary and fill themselves in.

Released: 1989
Platforms: Game Boy
Genres: Arcade Platformer Puzzle
Developers: Bandai
Publishers: Bandai
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action
Country: Japan
Languages: English

About

Hyper Lode Runner is a video game for the Game Boy from Bandai released in 1989 in Japan and 1990 in North America. It is based on the 1983 game Lode Runner from Broderbund. While each level in the original fit on a single screen, Hyper Lode Runner has a scrolling playfield.

Keywords

level editor
game boy link cable support

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

Hyper Lode Runner received mixed reviews upon release. Total! described the game as the "toughest [Game Boy] cart to date by far", citing frustrations with its "incredibly hard" difficulty. Despite noting the game's "decent gameplay" and the inclusion of an edit mode, Electronic Gaming Monthly found Hyper Lode Runner to offer little enjoyment as an unremarkable port of the original title. In a retrospective review, Dave Frear of Nintendo Life described the game as "enjoyable" but critiqued the game's "off-putting" difficulty, expressing disappointment with the lack of a save function for the level editor.