The Lost Vikings

The Lost Vikings
North American SNES cover art
Developer(s)Silicon & Synapse
Publisher(s)Interplay Productions
T&E Soft (SFC)
Blizzard Entertainment (GBA)
Designer(s)Ron Millar
Composer(s)Charles Deenen
Allister Brimble (Amiga)
Matt Furniss (Genesis)
Platform(s)Super Nintendo, Genesis, Amiga, MS-DOS, Amiga CD32, Game Boy Advance, Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Release
April 29, 1993
  • SNES
    • NA: April 29, 1993
    • JP: October 8, 1993
    • EU: October 28, 1993
    Genesis
    Amiga, DOS
    1993
    Amiga CD32
    Game Boy Advance
    March 2003
    Windows, Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
    • WW: February 20, 2021[3]
Genre(s)Puzzle-platform
Mode(s)Single-player, cooperative

The Lost Vikings is a puzzle-platform game developed by Silicon & Synapse (now Blizzard Entertainment) and published by Interplay. It was originally released for the Super NES in 1993,[4] then subsequently released for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, MS-DOS, and Mega Drive/Genesis systems; the Mega Drive/Genesis version contains five stages not present in any other version of the game, and can also be played by three players simultaneously. Blizzard re-released the game for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. In 2014, the game was added to Battle.net as a free download emulated through DOSBox.[5] In celebration of the company's 30th anniversary, The Lost Vikings was re-released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as part of the Blizzard Arcade Collection in February 2021.[6]

In The Lost Vikings, the player controls three separate Vikings with different abilities. The three Vikings must work together to finish each level and find their way back home. A sequel, The Lost Vikings 2, was released in 1997.

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  5. ^ Wawro, Alex (May 2, 2014). "Rock n' Roll Racing, The Lost Vikings now free on Battle.net". Gamasutra. Think Services. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
  6. ^ McWhertor, Michael (February 19, 2021). "Three classic Blizzard games come to PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One today". Polygon. Retrieved February 24, 2021.