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Hyper Lode Runner

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…

21 September 1989

Hyper Lode Runner is an arcade, released 21 September 1989 on Game Boy.

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What Hyper Lode Runner is

Hyper Lode Runner was released in 1989. It was published by Bandai. It is available on Game Boy only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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. A robot that falls into one of your holes will be destroyed if the hole fills in before it can escape. Your character can also suffer this same fate, ending his life. Destroyed robots are replaced with new ones that appear from the top of the screen. The robots can also carry gold which they drop if they fall into a hole…
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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. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Hyper Lode Runner launched on 21 September 1989, within three weeks of Disney's DuckTales, SimCity and Shadow of the Beast.

Released around the same time: Disney's DuckTales, SimCity, Shadow of the Beast.

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When did Hyper Lode Runner come out?
Hyper Lode Runner was released on 21 September 1989 for Game Boy.

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