History YMMV / LodeRunner

* [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Funny Moments]]:

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Alongside ''VideoGame/BoulderDash'' and ''VideoGame/{{Spelunker}}'', ''Lode Runner'' is one of the few [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 crash-era]] Western video games that found widespread acceptance among Japanese gamers. Creator/{{Irem}} and Creator/HudsonSoft created adaptations for arcades and the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem respectively.
* NightmareFuel

*** Once you unlock the Furnace of Despair world, you're given a new hazard to work with: Fire. Stepping on any metal platform that's actively being superheated by a capped well is instant death, and then you're treated to a ''very pleasant image of Jake being charred and consumed in flames.''

*** Once you unlock the Furnace of Despair world, you're given a new hazard to work with: Fire. Stepping on any metal platform that's actively being superheated by a capped well is instant death, and then you're treated to a ''very pleasant image of Jake being charred and consumed in flames.''
* NothingIsScarier:
** Lode Runner: The Legend Returns (and Mad Monk's Revenge by extension) includes a lot of background ambience to break apart the themed music tracks of each world. The spookiest one by far, though, goes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN_R_V4GgyY The Shadowlands]], which is already complemented visually by the fact that this entire world is programmed with limited vision so you can't see the entire map.
* {{Surrealism}}
** Lode Runner 2 gives us a very colorful example of this through what is probably the most memorable world in the game: Wacky World. This bizarre dimension comes with everything you could come to expect: Multicolored platforms, unusual plant life, amorphous jelly-like blobs, lava lamps, giant smiley faces, you name it. Let's not forget the anthropomorphic Moon who randomly scowls down at the player, and the Sun who will occasionally break out into a bizarrely creepy chuckle!
** While most backdrops in The Legend Returns/Mad Monk's Revenge are pretty par for the course (and also very well drawn), some world backdrops take a much bigger dive into the abstract. The most notable ones are Fungus Delvings, The Shadowlands, and the Reef World in Mad Monk's Revenge.
** Lode Runner 3-D gives us the Bio-Hazard world. This is an unsettlingly organic world where all of the transportation devices and destructable blocks are made out of strange, alien-like biomatter. It's by far the strangest of the five worlds in the game.

** Lode Runner: The Legend Returns and it's re-release Mad Monk's Revenge comes with some rather humorous cutscenes that play in between world transitions.

*** The Mad Monk's Revenge version gives us an ending cutscene where Jake manages to infiltrate the main base of the Mad Monks. After disguising himself in one of their spare robes, Jake manages to end their entire operation... by pulling out a plug that literally cuts the power to the entire facility.

** While most backdrops in The Legend Returns/Mad Monk's Revenge are pretty par for the course (and also very well drawn), some world backdrops take a much bigger dive into the abstract. The most notable ones are Fungus Delvings, The Shadowlands, and the Reef World in Mad Monk's Revenge.

** Lode Runner 2 gives us a very colorful example of this through what is probably the most memorable world in the game: Wacky World. This bizarre dimension comes with everything you could come to expect: Multicolored platforms, unusual plant life, amorphous jelly-like blobs, lava lamps, giant smiley faces, you name it. Let's not forget the anthropomorphic Moon who randomly scowls down at the player, and the Sun who will occasionally break out into a bizarrely creepy chuckle!

** In Lode Runner: The Legend Returns (and Mad Monk's Revenge by extension) includes a lot of background ambience to break apart the themed music tracks of each world. The spookiest one by far, though, goes to The Shadowlands, which is already complemented visually by the fact that this entire world is programmed with limited vision so you can't see the entire map.

* Surrealism

*** Once you unlock the Furnace of Despair world, you're given a new hazard to work with: Fire. Stepping on any metal platform that's actively being superheated by a capped well is instant death, and then you're treated to a ''very pleasant image of Jake being charred and consumed in flames.''

** In Lode Runner 3-D whenever you lose a life you're treated to a still image of how you died while the level restarts and reloads. Three in particular are actually quite disturbing.

** In general across all games, it's pretty disturbing to see your character get swallowed up by the ground they dug up should they get stuck in a puzzle.

*** During the Crystal Hoard cutscene, Jake manages to stop a monk hoard's pursuit by lobbing a bucket of goo on the floor. The goo is so slippery that the Monks can only comically run in place and trip on top of one another while Jake pulls out a folding chair and watches the amusing scene before him.

** In Lode Runner 3-D, if you happen to die from being too close to a bomb explosion, you're treated to an image of the player character's SmolderingShoes while the level reloads from the beginning.

** In Lode Runner 3-D, if you happen to die from being too close to a bomb explosion, you're treated to a image of the player character's SmolderingShoes while the level reloads from the beginning.

** Lode Runner: The Legend Returns and it's re-release Mad Monk's Revenge come with some rather humorous cutscenes that play in between world transitions.

*** The Mad Monk's Revenge version gives us an ending cutscene where Jake manages to infiltrate the main base of the Mad Monks. After disguising himself in one of their spare robes, Jake manages to end their entire operation... by pulling out a plug that literally cuts the power to the entire facility.

*** In the Winter's Dungeon cutscene, Jake manages to trap 4 monks in a row by laying down snare traps, which swiftly lift them off their feet and are left to dangle. Jake then pulls back one of the trapped monks and lets them collide off of one another like a large Newton's Cradle toy.

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* [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Funny Moments]]:

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* FunnyMoments:

* FandomEnragingMisconception: Often misspelled "Load Runner" (possibly after the computer commands to Load the game, then Run it); the game is actually named after the (mother)lode of gold.

* FandomBerserkButton: Often misspelled "Load Runner" (possibly after the computer commands to Load the game, then Run it); the game is actually named after the (mother)lode of gold.

* GannonBanned: Often misspelled "Load Runner" (possibly after the computer commands to Load the game, then Run it); the game is actually named after the (mother)lode of gold.