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Gold Runner is a clone of Lode Runner (from Broderbund Software (before they themselves briefly
entered the Coco market))... a game that was available on many
platforms, from the IBM PC to the Apple II. This was one of the first commercial games that Dave Dies
did for the Coco, and predates the formation of Diecom Products (a company he ran).
The object in the game is to grab all of the gold bars, and escape to the next level,
while dodging (or digging holes for them to fall into) the guards. There are 33
levels in all.
Like the original, there are bricks that can't be dug into, poles to climb across, ladders
to climb up and down, secret trapdoors and the like. One neat effect that both the original and this
version had is that the screens are drawn in a circular fashion... filling out from the middle
of the screen until the whole screen was drawn. A side note: Novasoft was a Tom Mix Software
subsiduary that sold commercial quality games for cheaper prices than most companies did at the time. |
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