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Hi

Sad news, the original creator Douglas E. Smith of the famous and
excellent game Lode Runner passed away

RIP

Kamelito

source : http://www.tozaigames.com/news/91

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Spent many hours playing that game on the C64.

Lode Runner was a great game! I remember it on the C-64 as well. Although it was abit frustrating at times when the mines caved in too fast on the higher levels.

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65Org16:https://github.com/ElEctric-EyE/verilog-6502

And only 54 years old. Wrote the original 6502 version of Lode Runner over a weekend, having written the predecessors in Fortran and a bit of Pascal: see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lode_Runner#History
See also the written interview at
http://uk.ign.com/articles/1999/02/18/locknlode