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  GameSpy.com - Review
Each of the Vikings can also hold up to four items, such as food that restores their health, keys that open locked doors or lower bridges, or smart bombs that destroy all enemies on the screen at once.
The goal of each of The Lost Vikings' levels is to get all three Vikings to the EXIT sign at the end of the level by switching between them with the L and R buttons and using their abilities to conquer enemies and obstacles.
The Lost Vikings' graphics are ported directly from the SNES version of the game, which means they don't take full advantage of the GBA's enhanced processing power, but it's still a sharp-looking game nonetheless.
archive.gamespy.com /reviews/april03/lostvikingsgba   (902 words)

  
 GameSpy.com - Review
Each of the Vikings can also hold up to four items, such as food that restores their health, keys that open locked doors or lower bridges, or smart bombs that destroy all enemies on the screen at once.
The goal of each of The Lost Vikings' levels is to get all three Vikings to the EXIT sign at the end of the level by switching between them with the L and R buttons and using their abilities to conquer enemies and obstacles.
The Lost Vikings' graphics are ported directly from the SNES version of the game, which means they don't take full advantage of the GBA's enhanced processing power, but it's still a sharp-looking game nonetheless.
www.gamespy.com /reviews/april03/lostvikingsgba   (902 words)

  
 LOST VIKINGS 2 - Review - ABSOLUTE PLAYSTATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lost Vikings 2 is the sequel to the 16-bit Super Nintendo game from four years ago.
One or two Vikings will decide to go walkabout during the course of the game and your numbers will be made up with the two new characters, Fang, the wolf with a perm and Scorch the luminous dragon.
Lost Vikings 2 has a gentle learning curve but some of the puzzles can become quite taxing so you ain't gonna finish this game in a couple of days.
www.absolute-playstation.com /api_review/rvik2.htm   (1494 words)

  
 Wicked Toast - Lost Vikings review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Blizzard then announced Lost Vikings, the remake of the SNES hit from 10 years ago.
Lost Vikings was the first - my interest was piqued.
If you're still not sure that Lost Vikings is for you, Blizzard has released a playable Flash demo (click here) of the game.
www.wickedtoast.com /article.php?id=60   (845 words)

  
 The Lost Vikings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lost Vikings is a side-scrolling puzzle/platform video game which was developed by Blizzard Entertainment (then known as "Silicon and Synapse") and released in 1992 by publisher Interplay Entertainment.
The sequel, The Lost Vikings II, was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 1994 by publisher Interplay Entertainment for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
A 32-bits enhanced port of The Lost Vikings II was developed for the Sega Saturn, PlayStation and PC, known in the United States as Norse By Norsewest: Return of the Lost Vikings.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Lost_Vikings   (1043 words)

  
 WorthPlaying - Xbox 360 (X360) , PlayStation 3 (PS3), Nintendo Wii, Xbox, PlayStation 2 (PS2), GameCube (NGC), PSP, ...
The Lost Vikings was one of the first games that Blizzard developed and Blizzard received numerous requests from their consumers to make the title available again.
The reason they are “lost” is because some wacky aliens abducted the hat-horned trio and dropped them off in the future where they are forced to make their way through numerous obstacle courses before reclaiming their freedom.
If you played The Lost Vikings already on one of the many platforms it was made available for in 1993 then there isn’t much incentive to revisit it on the GBA since it offers no new modes of play or bonus additions that weren’t found in the original.
www.worthplaying.com /article.php?sid=10750   (1055 words)

  
 The Armchair Empire - GameBoy Advance Reviews: The Lost Vikings
When it comes to classic games, The Lost Vikings is right up there – at least for me – so it was with quite a bit of nostalgia that I started into the GBA translation.
Lost Vikings (LV) is more than a decade old but it’s in its prime on Nintendo’s handheld.
For those that have already experienced Lost Vikings, enough time has passed for you to forget the solutions and enjoy the Norse answer to the Three Stooges.
www.armchairempire.com /Reviews/gba/lost-vikings.htm   (717 words)

  
 HonestGamers - The Lost Vikings (Super Nintendo) Video Game Reviews Video Game Coverage
Vikings were known for a lot of things such as farming, trading, and exploring, but the trait they are best known for was their brutality.
Unfortunately their home is not across the street from the zoo, so the Vikings must travel through several different time periods in order to return home so they can go back to slaughtering the innocent, or eat more food (probably the latter).
The Lost Vikings is so fun that you might want to play it again; so if you’re a fat Snerd with no friends because of your gigantic man-boobs and five-chinned girlfriend (who doesn’t play videogames) the game will still last for a while.
www.honestgamers.com /systems/content.php?game_id=2428&console_id=10&review_id=3280   (1436 words)

  
 ClassicGaming.com - Game of the Week: The Lost Vikings
The Vikings: for over 200 years they drank themselves into comas, brawled, hacked and slashed, burned, and plundered their way across Northern Europe with big sharp swords.
However, some scholars now speculate that the Vikings were primarily farmers, and their fighters were no more fierce or savage then any other bunch of warriors.
The Lost Vikings was created by Silicon and Synapse, and published by Interplay in 1993 for the PC and the Sega Genesis.
www.classicgaming.com /rotw/lostvikings   (962 words)

  
 IGN: The Lost Vikings Review
The game hasn't lost a beat in the translation, as the design is still as clever and challenging as it has always been.
The Lost Vikings puts players in full control of three Vikings lifted out of their cozy Norwegian village by an alien who's looking to add a few new humans to its collection.
Luckily, if a Viking takes a hit from an enemy, or takes a short tumble, they can replenish the lost health point with found fruit and meat in a specific level; but if a Viking hits electricity or falls too far, it's a one-hit death.
gameboy.ign.com /articles/392/392044p1.html   (862 words)

  
 Amiga Reviews: The Lost Vikings
Vikings are the central characters in this port from the SNES to the Amiga.
The Lost Vikings is in a very similar vein to Humans and even Lemmings.
The Viking bods are definite cuties and their witty asides brought a wry smile to my boat.
amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com /lostviki.htm   (2364 words)

  
 Home of the Underdogs - Entry: Lost Vikings, The
Three stalwart Vikings are accidentally sucked into an alien spaceship during one of their pillaging voyages...
Gameplay in The Lost Vikings is best described as puzzle-based platform, similar to Lemmings or more recently The Humans: the goal in each level is to get all three Vikings to the exit.
The Vikings have a "health bar" which can be regenerated by eating food found on the level, and can sustain some damage from aliens' attack.
www.the-underdogs.info /game.php?gameid=1413   (557 words)

  
 The Lost Vikings - Gametrash.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Lost Vikings is a side-scrolling puzzle/platform video game which was developed by Blizzard Entertainment (then known as "Silicon & Synapse") and released in 1992 by publisher Interplay Entertainment.
The game is based around three Vikings, Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce, and Olaf the Stout, who get kidnapped by Tomator, a croutonian alien for an inter-galactic zoo and become lost in various periods of time.
All features on Gametrash.com that are not copywrited by their respective owners are owned by Gametrash.com and may not be reprinted, redistributed, edited, modified, manipulated, or changed in any way without the permission of Gametrash Entertainment.
www.gametrash.com /game.php/21/the_lost_vikings.html   (209 words)

  
 Superoms 2000, All Super-Nintendo, All the time
The Lost Vikings is a great game that combines action with puzzle solving.
I was actually pretty impressed by the sound in The Lost Vikings.
The Lost Vikings creates gameplay that balances action and thinking very well.
www.angelfire.com /super/leet_games/lostvikings.html   (182 words)

  
 Parco Reviews: The Lost Vikings
3 Vikings, Erik the swift, Baelog the fierce, and Olaf the stout are taken from their homes by the evil crutonian, Tomator.
I think it would be cool (and good use of linkage) to have another viking adventure on the game, for three players.
Each player controls one of the vikings and then there could be motion puzzle things where on player has to set somethign in motion and the others have to rely on the first one telling them when he started the object in motion.
www.angelfire.com /weird2/w00tness/lostvikings.html   (839 words)

  
 The Entertainment Depot - PC / Mac / Console Gaming : Game Boy Advance - Reviews - The Lost Vikings
First in a series of classic titles from Blizzard's past, The Lost Vikings features the tale of three Vikings who had the demeanor of the Three Stooges and the ingenuity of the player's wit.
While not as strict to the subgenre as the upcoming port of Blackthorne, The Lost Vikings has the same element of seeming as a typical platforming title, but turning out to be so much more.
Strangely, the game continues when a Viking dies, leaving the player to finish the level for no real reason, other than to scope out future hazards before attempting a retry.
www.entdepot.com /gba/thelostvikings/review.php   (985 words)

  
 The Lost Vikings (Game Boy Advance) Reviews. Game Boy Advance Games Reviews by CNET.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Most of the puzzles in each area require teamwork between at least two of the Vikings, so your goal is to figure out how to put their abilities together in order to reach the next room.
What makes The Lost Vikings so unique is that all three characters occupy their own space in the same environment.
The Lost Vikings is a challenging game, and it features 37 levels, so it takes a while to finish.
reviews.cnet.com /The_Lost_Vikings_Game_Boy_Advance/4505-9975_7-30978191.html   (857 words)

  
 Game Over Online Magazine - The Lost Vikings
Using a plethora of different keys, you alternated between three vikings who were abducted by aliens and put into a spaceship full of aliens, lasers, force fields and other futuristic contraptions.
From the attitudes these guys exhibited trapped in a claustrophobic space ship, they would be the three modern guys looking for an exit out of the ship just because they were taken away from their Budweisers and needed to catch up on the next hockey game on ESPN.
That's the trend these days, but The Lost Vikings is a game where the designer (the minds behind Blizzard before they got the letters R, T and S stuck in their head) thought it was a good idea to split the attributes amongst three different characters.
www.game-over.net /reviews.php?page=gbareviews&id=79   (882 words)

  
 The lost Vikings    In the year 1000ad
By 1345 the last Viking set sail from Greenland and its written in the annuls of Greenland that they left the christen faith and took up the American way.
Follow this link to an index to webs and books which relate to lost lost Viking kingdoms.
a pin of a Viking anchor, a soapstone dagger with a bone blade and a half of a bead.
forest.facts.tripod.com /xvinland.htm   (1494 words)

  
 Xbox 360 Store :: The Lost Vikings
you see, if you lost one of the three viking brothers, you can't finish the level, as you are required to get them all safely to the exit.
The Vikings get teleported across space and time, repeatedly facing difficult logic puzzles (disguised as complex mazes), with the completion of each level allowing them to move on to the next level.
Challenge: Each of the Vikings has certain skills (e.g., jumping, floating down on using a shield as a parachute, protecting the othes with the shield, running, shooting a bow-and-arrow, head-butting walls), but not the skills of the other two.
www.xboxtoday.ca /store/The_Lost_Vikings-B000086JYQ.html   (755 words)

  
 Lost Vikings Gameboy Advance Video Game Demo | Nintendo GBA | Free Videogame | Vikings | Puzzle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Blizzard, the game geeks behind Starcraft, Warcraft 3 and Diablo, have put The Lost Vikings onto the Gameboy Advance to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
The Lost Vikings are Erik the Swift, Olaf the Stout and Baleog the Fierce.
You're in charge of these three dudes and it's up to you to use their skills to solve puzzles and get them through the game.
www.kidzworld.com /article/3354-the-lost-vikings-free-pc-game-demo   (182 words)

  
 Download Lost Vikings software - Softlookup Downloads
It's just another cool day of Nordic seafaring and pillaging when the 3 vikings (Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce, and Olaf the Stout) are suddenly sucked into an alien spaceship.
You control the different skills of the Vikings as they cooperate to finish each level.
The 3 distinct Viking personalities come alive as they talk to each other in humorous cartoon caption.
www.softlookup.com /download/down16479.html   (491 words)

  
 The Lost Vikings Nintendo Gameboy Advance Video Game Review | SP | Blizzard | Puzzles | GBA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Way back when Vikings were still running around looting and pillaging, Blizzard made a cool video game called The Lost Vikings.
Now, The Lost Vikings are back but this time, they're on the Nintendo Gameboy Advance!
The Lost Vikings is a puzzle game about these three Norse butt-kickers named Eric the Swift, Olaf the Stout and Baleog the Fierce.
www.kidzworld.com /article/3381-the-lost-vikings-gba   (252 words)

  
 The Lost Vikings for DOS - MobyGames
The three Vikings will have to combine their unique skills to defeat Tomator, along with a vast array of aliens, robots, giant snails, big lizards and more.
Players will have to use the three Vikings as a team, if there is any hope to get past the increasingly difficult levels and puzzles.
In World of Warcraft, there is a dungeon called "Uldaman" where the three vikings appear as NPCs (non-playable characters), related to a quest called "The Lost Dwarves".
www.mobygames.com /game/dos/lost-vikings   (321 words)

  
 The Lost Vikings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lemmings, The Lost Vikings has you controlling three vikings captured by the evil Tomator and placed aboard his spaceship.
The object of the game is simply to escape from his clutches.
Each of the three vikings in the title has different strengths and weaknesses, so you must learn how to use all three of them together in order to win.
plover.net /~hloif/Reviews/ComputerGames/LostVikings.html   (89 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Lost Vikings for Game Boy Advance at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The three Vikings ended up trapped in the corridors of the space ship instead of in the specimen room where Tomator had planned on keeping them.
That's right, to successfully complete a level, all THREE Vikings must get safely to the exit, and if one (or more) of the dies and doesn't make it to the exit sign, then you will then be given an option to either continue or quit.
If all three have actually made it safely to the exit at each level you will notice that little bubble pop up boxes show up, their conversation to one another, I have found it to be a little humorous.
www.epinions.com /content_169913454212   (2070 words)

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