The Lost Vikings

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51K plays 1992 #Action#Platform#Puzzle

The Lost Vikings is a 1993 puzzle-platform game developed by Silicon & Synapse (now Blizzard Entertainment) and published by Interplay Productions. In the game, the player controls three separate vikings with different abilities. The three vikings must work together to finish each level and find their way back home.

The game was initially released for the Super NES, then subsequently released for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, MS-DOS, and Mega Drive/Genesis. A sequel, The Lost Vikings 2, was released in 1997.

Blizzard re-released The Lost Vikings for the Game Boy Advance in 2003 and for Battle.net in 2014. In 2021, the game was re-released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One as part of the Blizzard Arcade Collection.

From Wikipedia's article The Lost Vikings, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Controls

This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Controls

This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

The Lost VikingsDOS

4.0 Great job!

Critics 83 · 15 reviews

What the reviews talk about

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What the critics said

  • Computer Gaming World in 1993 called The Lost Vikings "a clever blend of comedy and role playing".

    — Computer Gaming World

  • The magazine concluded that "the game is a unique puzzle solving adventure, great for people who enjoy using their cerebral cortex along with their eye to hand coordination".

    — Computer Gaming World, 1993

  • He summarized the game as "funny, fresh and challenging enough to keep you playing for hours on end".

    — VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, 1993

  • Electronic Gaming Monthly in 1994 remarked of the Genesis version that "the music doesn't have the kick of the Super NES version (or the truly colorful graphics)", but it is generally a well done conversion of "a really good puzzle game".

    — Electronic Gaming Monthly, 1994· about another version

  • Super Gamer magazine gave the SNES version a score of 92%, writing: "A huge variety of puzzles to this Lemmings game. Funny, fun and completely addictive".

    — Super Gamer, 1994· about another version

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's The Lost Vikings article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Scores

  • AllGame 4/5 (SNES) ; 3.5/5 (SMD) (other versions)
  • Amiga Computing 1993 84%
  • Amiga Format 1993 79% ; 72% (CD32)
  • Amiga Power 1993 87%
  • Aktueller Software Markt 1993 11/12 ; 10/12 (CD32)
  • Computer and Video Games 1993 88/100 (SMD) ; 90/100 (SNES) (other versions)
  • Electronic Gaming Monthly 1993 8/10, 6/10, 6/10, 7/10, 7/10 (SMD) ; 30/40 (SNES) (other versions)
  • GamePro 1994 17/20
  • GamesMaster 90%
  • GameSpot 2003 7.1/10
  • GameZone 2003 7.9/10
  • IGN 2003 8.5/10
  • Jeuxvideo.com 2010 16/20
  • Mega Fun 1993 83/100
  • Mean Machines Sega 1994 84/100
  • Nintendo Power 1993 14.2/20
  • Total! 87%
  • Video Games (DE) 1993 80% (SMD) ; 78% (SNES) (other versions)
  • VideoGames & Computer Entertainment 9/10 (SNES) (other versions)
  • The One 1993 90%

From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' archived average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.

Players' rating: 71/100 · 147 votes

Full reviews

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  1. 1.00+
  2. 1.540+
  3. 2.050+
  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

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