The Lost Vikings

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Three Vikings, three very different skills, and not one of them can finish a level alone. That is the elegant idea at the heart of The Lost Vikings, the puzzle-platformer Silicon & Synapse made just before the studio renamed itself Blizzard Entertainment. Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce and Olaf the Stout are snatched from their village by Tomator, emperor of the alien Croutonian Empire, who wants them for his intergalactic zoo. They escape, only to find themselves lost across time, and the only way home runs through Tomator himself.

You switch between the three at will, and every screen becomes a question of who goes where. Erik runs faster than the others, jumps and bashes through certain walls with his helmet. Baleog fights with a sword and a bow whose arrows can trip distant switches. Olaf's shield blocks enemies and projectiles, works as a glider for a slow descent and doubles as a platform his friends can stand on. Every Viking has to reach the exit, so losing one means rethinking the room, and the puzzles grow wonderfully devious as the levels pile up.

The Genesis cartridge has real appeal for collectors and players: it includes five stages found in no other version, bringing the total to 42 levels. It also supports co-op, with two players each steering a Viking and able to switch to the third, and even three players at once, turning the puzzle-solving into a conversation on the couch.

The humor is half the charm, from the bickering banter between levels to the cartoonish ways the Vikings meet their end. It was Blizzard's early proof that it could build a game with a personality all its own, and the trio kept turning up long afterward, from Warcraft III and World of Warcraft to playable roles in Heroes of the Storm. Those Genesis-only stages and three-player co-op were even carried into the 2021 Definitive Edition, which makes this cartridge the original home of the most complete version of the game.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1994
Publisher
Ballistic
Developer
Silicon & Synapse
Players
Single player, Co-op
About the game

The Mega Drive/Genesis version contains five stages not present in any other version of the game.

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