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Time Runner is a maze video game, similar to Konami's 1981 Amidar arcade game, published by Funsoft in 1981. It was written for the TRS-80 by Yves Lempereur who also wrote an Atari 8-bit family version released the same year.[1] A port to the Commodore 64 by Scott Maxwell and Troy Lyndon was published in 1983.[2]

Time Runner
Publisher(s)	Funsoft
Designer(s)	Yves Lempereur
Programmer(s)	TRS-80 & Atari 8-bit Yves Lempereur[1] Commodore 64 Scott Maxwell Troy Lyndon[2]
Platform(s)	TRS-80, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64
Release	1982: TRS-80, Atari 1983: C64
Genre(s)	Maze
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

Time Runner is a game in which the player goes around the edges of 20 rectangular boxes on a checkerboard playing area to claim one as territory.[3]

Reception

Dick McGrath reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Time Runner may hold out some challenge to nimble-fingered whiz kids, but in my book it only rates about a 5 out of a possible 10 for arcade games."[3]

See also

• Kid Grid

References

External links

• Review in 80 Micro
• Addison Wesley Book of Atari Software 1984
• Hi-Res Magazine review
• Review in Ahoy!
• Review in Electronic Games
• Review in SoftSide

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