Re: LoadRunner - Anybody got it?

[jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)]

In article <3296f2$hj4@nyx10.cs.du.edu> vputz@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Victor Putz) writes:
>...also note that another shareware version of Lode Runner will be available
>within the next couple of months with variable sized playfields, 
>different terrain and other goodies (doors, lures, much smarter killers,
>and more) with a scrolling platform feel.  It plays somewhat differently
>(feels a lot more claustrophibic as a radar display shows all the 
>nasties converging on you when you can't quite see them off the edge of the s
>screen... something like the motion tracker in Aliens) but all playtesters
>so far have felt that it has a very similar feel and is in many ways
>more fun.

Back in the mid-80s, when IBM had its own software catalog for the IBM PC,
they offered a game called "Roadrunner" which was a blatant rip-off of 
Lode-runner - same basic idea, except with roadrunners and bird seed. It
was hilarious!
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