Freddy's Rescue Roundup
Freddy's Rescue Roundup is a non-scrolling platform game for MS-DOS released in 1984 by IBM. It is similar to Broderbund's Lode Runner (1983). The goal of the game is to collect all of the roadrunners on a particular level in order to advance through the game. Doorways aid in quickly traveling across a level, while enemy robots work against the player's progress.
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| Developer(s) | IBM |
| Publisher(s) | IBM |
| Designer(s) | D. P. Leabo A. V. Strietzel |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS |
| Release | 1984 |
| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Development
The development title was Roadrunner Rescue. There was a crude program for editing mazes, but it wasn't in the shipped version, at least partly because IBM felt it made the game too much like Lode Runner.
The game is written mostly in compiled BASIC v1.0, with a few assembly modules linked in for graphics, sound, and keyboard support. This can be confirmed by looking at the executable.
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