As mentioned in the video, it's a game that uses uses direct modem connection to play online. Not the same kinda thing that you'd think of as "online" with multiplayer today; no servers or anything like that. So in that sense, no. But if they wanted to they'd have to connect two computers via modem or on a LAN.
Yes, though it requires some tweaking to get it working. You can also just download the "LRO:MMR Windows 7" from the second link in the video description above.
My thoughts was constantly: I remember this game... Why do I remember this game?? I remember it was pretty scary but why??... Then you mention the devoured death animation and I was like: "Ah... Yeah... I remember now..."
Thank you for reviewing this. This game means a lot to me. I actually felt teary eyed while watching your review. My brother and I would play this game so much in the old days. We'd fight who would play more, who always get more gold, and we'd bomb or trap each other's players (but he would always win). Those were good memories. I'm very grateful for this review. Thanks again. :)
Absolutely loved this game! I know one of the designers, and my little brother and I built a whole bunch of two player levels that required a mix of competition and cooperation (wish I had a copy of those). I listened to the Redbook audio soundtrack this morning after watching your video and it's still as good as ever!
Thanks for reviewing this game, I almost completely forgot about it until now. As kid my parents were one of those people that refused to buy me this, since it had "online" in the title, thinking it would charge up some sort of bill.
The amount of time I've spent playing this game back in the day is just staggering! Something about the different color pallettes for the level designs gave the game such a great ambience! Making levels used to eat up hours of my time. So unbelievably good.
DUDE LGR! you just blew my mind, i had load runner the legend returns when i was little and i forgot ALL about it until you reminded me of it, THANKYOU
Dude's being a major ass to people, he's been blocked, moving on. I actually do hope to cover the first games in those franchises eventually. But I'm just not sure when that will be.
3:26 is he saying you want to stab someone using a hamster? Or is he saying you want to stab somone who owns a hamster? Or is he saying that you and a hamster are going to go stab someone together?!
LGR, as Endrance said, You just literally threw a blast from the past at me, Lode Runner was what me and my brother played when we were little, oh man, now I gotta find a place to find the game.
I knew it wouldn't be long before this was asked. I honestly have no idea what it is or if it's even a game... far as I can tell it's a vocabulary aid with unicorns and rainbows. Sounds glorious, so a video may just be in order.
I have the original CD Rom version and worked great for me on Windows XP when I installed it over the weekend. Just put the CD in, installed, and it worked (surprisingly).
Oh yes, I LOVED this game. Best version of Lode Runner ever, plus a most awesome level editor. So many hours of fun building levels and playing multiplayer...
Ohhh man was this a treat. I never owned MMR, but The Legend Returns was literally one of the first PC games I ever played. We had a Packard Bell and my brother picked it up because my dad was a MASSIVE fan of the older ones. I can't remember if Lode Runner was my first game or Putt-Putt Saves the Moon, but I'd like to think Lode Runner. Also, HOLY CRAP THANKS FOR THE DOWNLOAD LINK I HAD NO IDEA.
I played a lot of the Legend Returns when I was a kid with my grandma during the late 90s, and just picked up the Mad Monks Revenge fan remake. I forgot how much fun this game was.
I owned this on Ps1, and enjoyed it immensely. Never knew about there being an expansion that was released on PC. I would've loved to play this version! Especially with the new traps that were implemented! Plus the music is always ballin'! :D
heard about this game, people talk about the original all the time, thanks for letting us know about it, will check it out :) awesome review as always.
Seems that he got all pissed because I said repeatedly that I had no plans to review his favorite games. Didn't say that I never would, but that I had no immediate plans to. But apparently, dude took it personally and started attacking anyone and everyone who also requested a game, and then started ranting about how my channel is now horrible and has no good content. Probably because I don't review what he wants. News flash: it's my channel, not his. Whatever, he's blocked now.
your one of the best if not the best reviewer because the way you review plus your aewsome voice. But most is because you review games from the best time of games where graphics where simple and still good plus the gameplay was just as good but nobody else review these games :(
Wow, I remember playing this game at a friend's house a lot when I was like 7-10 years old. This and Dungeon Keeper, with a bit of Doom and Quake mixed in.
I must say that most of the time the games you review (except for sims ) are unknown to me but I still watch your reviews for them because you do them awesomely. The first game that I played was the house of dead which was a small simple plain fun game. I'd be grateful if you do a review for that game.
All the memories are coming back! I've been trying to find what this was since 1995. I must have been at CompUSA with my dad and I played with this while he looked for whatever. I think the keyboard might not have been connected because no key inputs worked. In my frustration I clicked around the UI and found out that there was a literal suicide button. So I killed Mr. Lode Runner until the game over screen popped up because I just wanted to collect gold! Except for whatever reason, as a 4 or 5 year old girl I suddenly realized I was complicit in the suicide. The game over screen scared the crap out of me.
I really wish they would do another Lode Runner game. Perhaps bring the series back somehow, or put it on steam with online (2-4) co-op. Gotta be someone out there crazy enough to try it!
Wonderful review and thanks for the link to the games. I'd also like to see you cover the isometric Lode Runner 2 some time. Incidentally, for some reason the ending to this game reminds me of Rolling Thunder, a completely unrelated game.
Hi, do u know about a game that was simular to this called Fatman adventures, which replaced the enemys with monstors and you play as a yellow fat thing, its great, but I can't find a place to get it and I have only the demo.
I’m playing Lode Runner 3D right now. I have so much nostalgia for it, but I haven’t played the 2D Lode Runner games, but this looks really fun. Lode Runner 3D is one of my favorite puzzle games. I have a short play-through of it on my channel.
I played this all the time as a kid. I still have our old Compaq Presario with Windows 95 sitting around.... Need to clone that old hdd. It has TLR on it though, apparently this PC originally had Windows 3.1 and we did a Windows 95 upgrade? I don't remember. It does the ta-da sound on startup. I was so confused the first time I heard that fancy music sound in a video online talking about Windows 95. Also had Spelling Jungle, Kings Quest VII.. ah simpler times.
I wholeheartedly agree. It really is a shame though, that somebody producing so much quality content doesn't even have more than 1000 subs (although he's getting really close)
hey thank you for this great review. I never knew about Mad Monk's Revenge. All i had was Legend Returns and i couldn't find a way to get the darn thing to work on Win 7 64-bit. Glad i found this video. One last thing: is there a way the screen size in game? The level seems to take up just a quarter of my screen.
I love it when fanboys complain, he's just a guy reviewing video games from his house, youre not paying for this, he does not owe anything to any of us. He does what he does to entertain the viewers and he obviously knows what will entertain us the most.
I have the PS1 version of "The Legend Returns" with "Extra Levels" which is essentially the same as the PC version. I think I've heard of the Online version but don't remember owning it. Were the enemies "monks" in the original game? I thought the original had a more sci-fi feel to it, at least from the cover art. I've stabbed my neighbor with a gerbil once. Does that count?
Maybe you should try and read the description of the video. @LGR: Awesome, I remember playing the original on my Sega system when I was a kid. True classic.
I'm so glad to know this is freeware. People would charge quite a bit of money for a game this dense and with such smooth graphics and mechanics (even if faulty). I also liked the NES Lode Runner but not as much as this.
thanks for the review! the link for the newer windows versions is not working though, is it possible to upload another one? have the terrible need to play it :)
Please google for the DEFINITIVE VERSION - a remake for modern PC's with online multiplayer up to 4 players, working music (both cd quality and midi) and even blinear filtering!! Strongly recommend!!
I'm not joking, I've been searching for this game for 13 years, I couldn't remember the name of it, thank you so much! *Starts Nostalgia trip*
I've been looking for this game for 10 years and only today I found it again, how nostalgic cand be ...🙂
The game is freeware now, why wait for GoG? Just get it from the links in the video description!
17 or so years later, I finally find out the game is not online only/multiplayer only.
hahahahahahahaha
As mentioned in the video, it's a game that uses uses direct modem connection to play online. Not the same kinda thing that you'd think of as "online" with multiplayer today; no servers or anything like that. So in that sense, no. But if they wanted to they'd have to connect two computers via modem or on a LAN.
Yes, though it requires some tweaking to get it working. You can also just download the "LRO:MMR Windows 7" from the second link in the video description above.
Except that link is broken now.
My thoughts was constantly: I remember this game... Why do I remember this game?? I remember it was pretty scary but why??... Then you mention the devoured death animation and I was like: "Ah... Yeah... I remember now..."
Thank you for reviewing this. This game means a lot to me. I actually felt teary eyed while watching your review. My brother and I would play this game so much in the old days. We'd fight who would play more, who always get more gold, and we'd bomb or trap each other's players (but he would always win). Those were good memories. I'm very grateful for this review. Thanks again. :)
Absolutely loved this game! I know one of the designers, and my little brother and I built a whole bunch of two player levels that required a mix of competition and cooperation (wish I had a copy of those). I listened to the Redbook audio soundtrack this morning after watching your video and it's still as good as ever!
I really miss the Mac version of the music tracks, though.
Thanks for reviewing this game, I almost completely forgot about it until now. As kid my parents were one of those people that refused to buy me this, since it had "online" in the title, thinking it would charge up some sort of bill.
The amount of time I've spent playing this game back in the day is just staggering! Something about the different color pallettes for the level designs gave the game such a great ambience! Making levels used to eat up hours of my time. So unbelievably good.
Not entirely sure. It just kind of appeared in my collection one day.
DUDE LGR! you just blew my mind, i had load runner the legend returns when i was little and i forgot ALL about it until you reminded me of it, THANKYOU
Pure strangeness. I'll be reviewing this April!
I remember watching with my brother my older sister play this. Been searching the name for years. Was awesome watching her play and getting nervous.
Make sure to run the game at a lower desktop resolution. I just use 640x480 in compatibility mode and it looks as it did in this review.
Considering that's not the website address, I'm not surprised. Look in the video description, click the link.
Great review as always, but more importantly, you reminded me of a game forgotten from my childhood, that is Lode Runner 2. Thank you, LGR!
Dude's being a major ass to people, he's been blocked, moving on.
I actually do hope to cover the first games in those franchises eventually. But I'm just not sure when that will be.
I Would love to know your opinion on Lode Runner 2 (the isometric one). It was hard as balls, but man was it pretty and enjoyable.
agreed i grew up with that one it was my 1st taste of "open world" when i was a kid
Maybe that's the game that should have been "online."
This is defenitely one of my favorite games ever. So many memories.
3:26 is he saying you want to stab someone using a hamster? Or is he saying you want to stab somone who owns a hamster? Or is he saying that you and a hamster are going to go stab someone together?!
I remember playing this game and loving it.
LGR, as Endrance said, You just literally threw a blast from the past at me, Lode Runner was what me and my brother played when we were little, oh man, now I gotta find a place to find the game.
I knew it wouldn't be long before this was asked. I honestly have no idea what it is or if it's even a game... far as I can tell it's a vocabulary aid with unicorns and rainbows. Sounds glorious, so a video may just be in order.
A perfect game, I remember playing this in the year of release with my friend would've been about 7, these were the best times.
I remember watching my grandpa playing this and just wanting to play it so bad does it even run on nowadays pc??
I have the original CD Rom version and worked great for me on Windows XP when I installed it over the weekend. Just put the CD in, installed, and it worked (surprisingly).
Oh yes, I LOVED this game. Best version of Lode Runner ever, plus a most awesome level editor. So many hours of fun building levels and playing multiplayer...
I've been looking for this game FOR AGES! FOR A WHOLE DECADE in fact.
Ohhh man was this a treat. I never owned MMR, but The Legend Returns was literally one of the first PC games I ever played. We had a Packard Bell and my brother picked it up because my dad was a MASSIVE fan of the older ones. I can't remember if Lode Runner was my first game or Putt-Putt Saves the Moon, but I'd like to think Lode Runner. Also, HOLY CRAP THANKS FOR THE DOWNLOAD LINK I HAD NO IDEA.
I played a lot of the Legend Returns when I was a kid with my grandma during the late 90s, and just picked up the Mad Monks Revenge fan remake. I forgot how much fun this game was.
Thanks for posting. I loved this game back in the day and I'm trying to figure out where I can download this at. I'm looking for the 90's version
I owned this on Ps1, and enjoyed it immensely. Never knew about there being an expansion that was released on PC. I would've loved to play this version! Especially with the new traps that were implemented! Plus the music is always ballin'! :D
heard about this game, people talk about the original all the time, thanks for letting us know about it, will check it out :) awesome review as always.
Seems that he got all pissed because I said repeatedly that I had no plans to review his favorite games. Didn't say that I never would, but that I had no immediate plans to. But apparently, dude took it personally and started attacking anyone and everyone who also requested a game, and then started ranting about how my channel is now horrible and has no good content. Probably because I don't review what he wants. News flash: it's my channel, not his. Whatever, he's blocked now.
Ghehe. Oh youthfulness
your one of the best if not the best reviewer because the way you review plus your aewsome voice. But most is because you review games from the best time of games where graphics where simple and still good plus the gameplay was just as good but nobody else review these games :(
Wow, I remember playing this game at a friend's house a lot when I was like 7-10 years old. This and Dungeon Keeper, with a bit of Doom and Quake mixed in.
Any time I see LGR in my sub box, my day just gets better.
I must say that most of the time the games you review (except for sims ) are unknown to me but I still watch your reviews for them because you do them awesomely. The first game that I played was the house of dead which was a small simple plain fun game. I'd be grateful if you do a review for that game.
There was a 5 player game on the Turbografx-16 called Battle Lode Runner.
All the memories are coming back! I've been trying to find what this was since 1995. I must have been at CompUSA with my dad and I played with this while he looked for whatever. I think the keyboard might not have been connected because no key inputs worked. In my frustration I clicked around the UI and found out that there was a literal suicide button. So I killed Mr. Lode Runner until the game over screen popped up because I just wanted to collect gold!
Except for whatever reason, as a 4 or 5 year old girl I suddenly realized I was complicit in the suicide. The game over screen scared the crap out of me.
Man, i can't make it work on windows 7, is there a chance you can upload the tweaked version? the link is dead now
One of my favourite games when i was a kid.
I remember a friend had this game and Zelda Ocarina of Time.
I played this one more
The Music 🎶 in the online version are Extremely Awesome
This makes me beyond happy! I remember this game, but never remembered the title, I'm so getting this again and it's all thanks to you
Used to play this game all the time!
One of the best games ever!!! :D
Great review yet again!
Always wondered what a lode was. Looked it up just now- a vein of metal ore in the earth.
I really wish they would do another Lode Runner game. Perhaps bring the series back somehow, or put it on steam with online (2-4) co-op. Gotta be someone out there crazy enough to try it!
Wonderful review and thanks for the link to the games. I'd also like to see you cover the isometric Lode Runner 2 some time. Incidentally, for some reason the ending to this game reminds me of Rolling Thunder, a completely unrelated game.
Another well done video. Keep up the good work.
hey LGR how many games have you?! i really whant to know!! :D
There's also Lode Runner 2 for PC. It's like The Legend Returns but with a isometric perspective. It's a pretty fun game, You should try it
oh had this game back in my gram’s home pc,an olf mac,rest her soul. Didn’t know how to play it though
Hi, do u know about a game that was simular to this called Fatman adventures, which replaced the enemys with monstors and you play as a yellow fat thing, its great, but I can't find a place to get it and I have only the demo.
The death sounds make me oddly thirsty for grape soda!
I’m playing Lode Runner 3D right now. I have so much nostalgia for it, but I haven’t played the 2D Lode Runner games, but this looks really fun. Lode Runner 3D is one of my favorite puzzle games. I have a short play-through of it on my channel.
I played this all the time as a kid. I still have our old Compaq Presario with Windows 95 sitting around.... Need to clone that old hdd. It has TLR on it though, apparently this PC originally had Windows 3.1 and we did a Windows 95 upgrade? I don't remember. It does the ta-da sound on startup. I was so confused the first time I heard that fancy music sound in a video online talking about Windows 95. Also had Spelling Jungle, Kings Quest VII.. ah simpler times.
I wholeheartedly agree. It really is a shame though, that somebody producing so much quality content doesn't even have more than 1000 subs (although he's getting really close)
There are some programs that will tunnel local LAN over the internet for early games that work through IPX.
What's that land of the unicorn I see on your game shelf?
I grew up in a bubble so I never heard of Lode Runner.
I played a shareware game called Gold Runner🤣
hey thank you for this great review. I never knew about Mad Monk's Revenge. All i had was Legend Returns and i couldn't find a way to get the darn thing to work on Win 7 64-bit. Glad i found this video.
One last thing: is there a way the screen size in game? The level seems to take up just a quarter of my screen.
Sweet. Loved Legends. I think I might have even only had a MacAddict demo but I played tons of hours of this solo and with siblings.
I love it when fanboys complain, he's just a guy reviewing video games from his house, youre not paying for this, he does not owe anything to any of us. He does what he does to entertain the viewers and he obviously knows what will entertain us the most.
@0:55 Whoa, X-Car. I totally played the crap out of that back in the late 90's.
I have the PS1 version of "The Legend Returns" with "Extra Levels" which is essentially the same as the PC version. I think I've heard of the Online version but don't remember owning it.
Were the enemies "monks" in the original game? I thought the original had a more sci-fi feel to it, at least from the cover art.
I've stabbed my neighbor with a gerbil once. Does that count?
Sorry, where can I download Lode Runner The legend returns Please :)
I'm downloading the Mac OS 9 version right now! Time to boot-up my old Apple eMac!
what music is LGR using in the start of the video
I tried the original zx spectrum version and it was fun. I would really want to try this one too.
I love lode runner! I was wondering if this game works on the latest hardware? Because that would be cool.
LOVED THIS GAME!
I guess I'm buying ANOTHER game thanks to you LGR.
I was waiting for this review.
Now if only we can get one for Space Bunnies Must Dies!...
Oh I didn't know if the company managed to stick around. Well, I guess I'll have a look then, thanks for the heads up.
There's 4 arcade versions of Lode Runner, the first one came in 1984
The Lode Runner on XBox Live is pretty slick.
I had this on Mac, it was awesome
Maybe you should try and read the description of the video.
@LGR: Awesome, I remember playing the original on my Sega system when I was a kid. True classic.
watch out for that Liopleurodon , Charlie
I had this on apple 2c. I loved it.
thanks a bunch for this and the links too!
Sure thing!
A better question is: Does it use regenerating health system and "Bloody realistic screens"? :P
Can you do a review on the Amiga CD32?
Wasn't this on your Top 17 pc games of the 1990s?
do a review of it!
I'm so glad to know this is freeware. People would charge quite a bit of money for a game this dense and with such smooth graphics and mechanics (even if faulty). I also liked the NES Lode Runner but not as much as this.
This was such a great game dude
thanks for the review!
the link for the newer windows versions is not working though, is it possible to upload another one?
have the terrible need to play it :)
You should try Lode Runner 2 released for Win95/98 by GT interactive in 1998
Its Lode Runner in 3D with very nice graphics!
Please google for the DEFINITIVE VERSION - a remake for modern PC's with online multiplayer up to 4 players, working music (both cd quality and midi) and even blinear filtering!! Strongly recommend!!
You have my attention. I just went to the comments looking for ways to play Legends online in the present.
Had this on IIc followed by Karateka & Prince of Persia. Great times.
Awesome, this is one of the first games i played.
Are you talking about LGR? It says 43,012 subscriptions.
Is there a working link to get the version that works on Windows 8? That link's broken, and I can't find one anywhere.
I remember being introduced to this game by a German clone called Daisy's Garden
The download page has a link for the CD. But it is dead. Anybody know of a link for the full cd download that works?
Now I really want to know what Land of the Unicorn is...