
If there was no gold on the screen and you couldn't leave, then you'd say to yourself
monks could pick up your gold, hiding it from your view the only way you would know was that you couldn't actually leave the level until you got all of the gold. you could climb ladders, speed hand-over-hand across horizontal poles, fall outrageous spans that would kill mere mortals, dig through brick, run across ladders placed side by side why, you didn't even miss the lack of a " jump" command. you could dig through bricks to carve your own escape path. between levels or lives you got a cool circular transition effect although truth be told, sometimes you sat there saying " come on, come on, hurry up!". (Lode Runner used the keys j and l for left and right, i and k for up and down) it was the first game I knew of to use keys other than a, z, and the left and right arrows for control*. you could create your very own levels make 'em easy just for fun, make 'em tough and drive your friends crazy!. The Broderbund game Lode Runner was great for several reasons: Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge. Lode Runner II: The Bungeling Strikes Back. Smith still owns the rights to Lode Runner. Although Brøderbund is now owned by Mattel Interactive, Mr. #LODE RUNNER 2 WHITESIDES FULL#
In 1983 the game was picked up by Brøderbund and Doug dropped out of school to work on it full time.
Eventually Doug rewrote the game in 6502 Assembly on an Apple II+ he borrowed from a friend (this time renaming it "Miner"). When it was completed the game was rechristened "Kong". Eventually the password became common knowledge among the students and often nearly all of the users on the system would be running the program. Unless the user entered the correct password the program would crash. While under development the game was disguised as a program called "graph" which when executed would request a function. The game was originally developed in Fortran on a VAX 1 owned by the University of Washington. Smith) has been available on many different platforms over the years.