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Name: Lode Runner - The Bungeling Strikes Back
Developer: Irem

Year: 1984
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Platform
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Irem

Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Either
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
Buttons: 2 [Dig Left|Dig Right]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

Lode Runner - The Bungeling Strikes Back PCB Image

Lode Runner - The Bungeling Strikes Back Description

Very similar to the home computer game by Broderbund. Your commando runs around a vertical maze of tunnels made of brick and dirt. Use your blaster to dig holes, collect gold nuggets, and escape to the next level.

Lode Runner - The Bungeling Strikes Back was produced by Irem in 1984.

Irem released 87 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978.

Other machines made by Irem during the time period Lode Runner - The Bungeling Strikes Back was produced include Kung Fu, Lode Runner, Spartan X, Battle-Road, Lode Runner - Golden Labyrinth, Traverse USA, Zippy Race, Tropical Angel, Moon Patrol, and Panther.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Lode Runner - The Bungeling Strikes Back Census

There are 12,084 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,585 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,631 machines (6,830 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are approximately 7 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 6 of these machines are owned by our active Lode Runner - The Bungeling Strikes Back collectors. And of these, 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 5 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Lode Runner - The Bungeling Strikes Back circuit board set.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Legacy

Lode Runner (1984)
Lode Runner - The Bungeling Strikes Back (1984)
Lode Runner - Majin No Fukkatsu (1985)
Lode Runner - Teikoku Karano Dasshutsu (1986)
Lode Runner: The Dig Fight (2000)

Manuals

Pinout and DIP Switch Settings 2 Pages, 433 kB File.

Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Lode Runner - The Bungeling Strikes Back Flyer #4093

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