Growing up, I spent alot of my time with my unfortunate (and very patient) big brother. In fact, I blame my extremely uncool love of 80's music and fantasy novels on both my brothers, who also introduced me to computer games. I remember watching them play games like Tetris, Green Beret, and Joust (although I knew it as Concorde).
In the years between getting our first Windows machine and me graduating from high school, I remember playing lots of a) badminton, and b) Lode Runner with my brother. Not the original, but the awesome Lode Runner Online: Mad Monks' Revenge! We only had the one computer and had to share the keyboard, but we must have played through the 2-player levels hundreds of times.
Basically, the 2 players share the screen, each having to find a key that unlocks a portal to the next level. To get the key, you have to run through swamps, dig through the ground, escape mad monks, and possibly blow yourself up. Oh, and collect as much gold as you can! To get through each level, you have to make use of tools like bombs, drills, pickaxes, stun guns (tweet tweet, heh) which are scattered across the screen. Every level in the game was brilliantly designed, and super fun to get through with two players. Ingeniously, some levels require cooperation, while others allow you to trap the other guy in a pit with a mad monk and make off with all the gold. Ridiculously fun. Writing this makes me want to be 13 again. :)
A couple of years later, some company (not Sierra!) tried to be clever and released Lode Runner 3D, which totally didn't do it for me at all. The whole point of Lode Runner is to be able to see the entire 2D landscape in one screen, right?
Here is a level from the single player mode... drills, pickaxes, stun guns and all :)
So there you have it! My first top 5 list. Hooray!
What? No Super Mario?
ReplyDeletenever played it! can't handle games which require good timing and coordination. :P
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