Lode Runner
"Ahoy!" in 1984 called the game "a top-notch action game that requires both a quick mind and an agile joystick". With the "easy-to-use game generator", the magazine concluded that ""Lode Runner" is one of the best games available for the C-64. Unconditionally and wholeheartedly recommended". "PC Magazine" gave the game 16.25 out of 18 points. The magazine called the game "a tour de force of American ingenuity ... the first release in a long, long time that can honestly bear the title, 'computer game' ... "Lode Runner" uses the power of the PC to create something much more than a video version of Ping Pong. This game requires thought, too". The magazine praised the IBM PC version's graphics, increasingly difficult level design, and the level editor. "The Commodore 64 Home Companion" said that "there's lots of education hidden in" the level editor, concluding that "Lode Runner" "is one of the first of a new breed of computer game that lets the player be a creator".