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TitleRunning Men
TypeGame
TasksScriptwriter, Programmer, Game designer
Year1990
DescriptionThe last game I made for the Coco is actually a scenario created with the Wargame Designer II. Based on the movie Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Running Men gave you control of all 4 running men from the movie : Richards, Laughlin, Weiss and Mendez. Your mission: run through the arena, dodging or attacking trackers Sub-Zero, Dynamo, Buzzsaw, Fireball and Captain Freedom. Reach the three access terminals to get the access code and hack the satellite receiver to let the people know what's really going on!

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Using a turn-based wargame engine to port a storyline that is mainly action-oriented was a rather unconventional approach. But I'm happy with the results. The game was never released, for obvious copyright reasons.

The main (and only) screen of the game. Contestants Richards, Weiss and Laughlin make their entrance near Sub-Zero's ice rink.

Laughlin hacks through the first terminal, pissing off Sub-Zero who launches an attack against the three contestants.

As Sub-Zero gets beaten by Richards and his pals, fourth contestant Amber Mendez is launched into the arena!

With Sub-Zero out of the picture, our four running men make their way to the second terminal, near the garbage dump.

Richards gets near the terminal. Tension rises...

After a while, tracker Buzzsaw finally wakes up and attacks contestant Richards with his chainsaw.

All four contestants again gang up on poor old Buzzsaw. Usually this is where dynamo should move in... but apparently he had better things to do!

With Buzzsaw dead and Dynamo nowhere to be found, our heroes push foward towards the last terminal. But they run into a trap! Dynamo decided to gang up with the infamous Fireball in order to protect the last terminal!

Our heroes scramble to defeat the two trackers.

All four contestants decide to gang up on Dynamo, solving one problem at a time.

The trackers are dispatched after a few rounds, and tracker Richards makes it to the third and final terminal.
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Barricaded inside his bunker, isolated and alone against all four contestants, Captain Freedom decides to call it quits. Decisive victory!

Links
The Running Man