Infernal Runner
{{Short description|1985 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
|title = Infernal Runner
|developer = Loriciel
|publisher = Loriciel
|image = InfernalRunnerCoverartAmstrad.jpg
|caption =
|released = 1985
|genre = Platform
|modes = Single-player
|platforms = Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC
}}
Infernal Runner is a French satirical horror-themed platform game for the Commodore 64 published by Loriciel in 1985. Originally designed by Michel Koell and Yves Korta, the satirical tone has been compared to Jet Set Willy and Takeshi's Challenge.{{cite book |last1=Jankowski |first1=Filip |editor1-last=Giappone |editor1-first=Krista Bonello Rutter |editor2-last=Tomasz Z. |editor2-first=Majkowski |editor3-last=Švelch |editor3-first=Jaroslav |title=Video Games and Comedy |date=2022 |pages=173–190 |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-88338-6 |chapter="Sorry, You Had Won": Satirical French Digital Games Responding to National Sociopolitical Crisis (1984–1986) |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-88338-6_9|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-88338-6_9}} Éric Chahi, who later created Another World, is credited with porting the game to the Amstrad CPC.{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/retro-gamer-raspberry-pi-buenos-aires/Retro%20Gamer%20132/page/100/mode/2up| magazine=Retro Gamer |pages=100-101 |title=Another World 20th Anniversary Edition |publisher=Image Publishing |issue=132 |date=September 2016 |first=Darren |last=Jones}} It has been described as one of the first survival horror games.{{cite journal |last1=Jankowski |first1=Filip |title=Political and social issues in French digital games, 1982-1993 |journal=TransMissions |date=2017 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=162-176 |url=https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/entities/publication/15e14cf6-1072-402e-8f6b-db77cfbe6148 |publisher=TransMissions |issn=2451-5116}}
Gameplay
Players find themselves trapped in a house with lethal traps and various other menaces, and they must escape alive by collecting all keys and opening all trunks, all while avoiding starvation by collecting food. It is unknown what the actual story is: after collecting enough items, a wall on the map will disappear and the player can escape the game, upon which the character is run over by an ambulance car and is carried offscreen on a stretcher.
References
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External links
- [http://www.anotherworld.fr/anotherworld_uk/jeux_videos/infernal_runner.htm Infernal Runner] on Eric Chahi's personal site
- {{Lemon64 game|id=1295}}
- [http://www.loriciel.org/fiche.php?id=32 Infernal Runner] at Loriciel's website