Maher, The Digital Antiquarian: Lode Runner (2020)

Cite as: Maher, The Digital Antiquarian: Lode Runner (2020)
Original: https://www.filfre.net/2020/12/lode-runner/
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Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20260618050021id_/https://www.filfre.net/2020/12/lode-runner/
Accessed: 2026-10-22
Licence: © the publisher; quoted briefly
Credit: Jimmy Maher
Notes: Essay by Jimmy Maher (18 Dec 2020). The sentence on pits refilling after ten seconds is Maher's own description of the game, not a quotation of Doug Smith. Secondary; a lead toward the manual and the game.

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Jimmy Maher's history of Lode Runner says drilled pits fill in again after ten seconds, and that monks (the guards) climb out of a pit in a few seconds, so a pit that closes while a monk is still inside buries him.	`paragraph opening "There's a deceptive amount of depth"`	Web