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Lode Runner instruction booklet (Famicom, HFC-LR, Japan)

Soft, Hudson. 1984. “Lode Runner instruction booklet (Famicom, HFC-LR, Japan).” Lode Runner Famicom manual. Hudson Soft.

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Lode Runner Famicom manual
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https://archive.org/details/lode-runner-hfc-lr-fc-jp-manual-600-dpi
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https://archive.org/download/lode-runner-hfc-lr-fc-jp-manual-600-dpi/Lode%20Runner%20%5BHFC-LR%5D%28FC%29%28JP%29%20-Manual%28600DPI%29.pdf
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2026-11-06
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© Hudson Soft / Broderbund; scan hosted by the Internet Archive
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Scan in the Internet Archive item "lode-runner-hfc-lr-fc-jp-manual-600-dpi".
Notes
Japanese Famicom instruction booklet, 600 dpi scan. The item dates it 1984-07-31 (the scanner's date, not a statement in the booklet). Page locators are the booklet's own.

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Hudson Soft's booklet sells the Famicom game as part of its Family Computer series, code HFC-LR, and the title screen it pictures reads "COPYRIGHT © 1984 HUDSON SOFT", with Broderbund's permission.image 2, introductionimage 5 (booklet p. 3), title-screen photographimage 5 (booklet p. 3), title-screen photographManual
The Famicom game has 50 stages and a stage select that starts play at any of them; each gold nugget and each buried robot scores 100 points, and clearing a stage adds a runner, up to 9.image 10 (booklet p. 8)image 5 (booklet p. 3), Stage selectimage 7 (booklet p. 5), scoringimage 7 (booklet p. 5)Manual
The Famicom game's edit mode builds a screen of gold, bricks, and ladders the size of one TV screen, without scrolling.image 11 (booklet p. 9), Edit functionimage 11 (booklet p. 9), Edit functionManual
Broderbund's manual for the Atari disk version gives 150 rooms and an editor that saves to disk; the NES and Famicom games have 50 levels and a one-screen editor, and the NES booklet says its editor can't save.image 10 (booklet p. 8)image 11 (booklet p. 9), Edit functionManual